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THE CANADIAN
CONGREGATIONAL
YEAR BOOK
. 4 878-9
I'llNTAlXIXG TJIK
EBPOBTS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETINGS FOU 1878
Tbe Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec ;
The Congregational Union of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick
The Congregational College op British North America;
The Canada Congregational Missionary Society ;
The Canada Congregational Indian Missionary Society ;
The Congregational Provident Fund ; and
The Congregational Publisikng Comp\ny:
Cidvndar ; Ojfirial List; A Ihi oj' all Conijrcfjaiinnal Minister.^ and Clnirches
ill Canada; the Officers and Memherslilj) of Vie D ist net Associations ; a
Ministerial and Ecclesiastical Record for tJie year ; Bio/jrapkical Sketches
of deceased Ministers; Bejwrt of the National Council : a brief view of
the operations of the principal Congregalinnal and Missionary Societies of
Great Britain and the United States ,• Statistics ,- list of British, Colonial
and American Congregational Assoriafiaiis, Periodicals, etc.
\^ JOHN WOOD, FOR TTTK CONGRRGATTONAL PriRLTSIIING COArPANY. ^0"^
■ 18'7S.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
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CANADIAN
THE CANADIAN
CONGREGATIONAL
YEAR BOOK
1878-9
COXTAINIXG THK
REPORTS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETINGS FOR 1878
The Congregational Union op Ontario and Quebec ;
The Congregational Union of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick
The Congregational College op British North America;
The Canada Congregational Missionary Society;
The Canada Congregational Indian Missionary Society;
The Congregational Provident Fund ; and
The Congregational Publishing Company:
Calendar ; Official List ; A list of all Congregational Ministers and Clmrehes
in Canada ; the Officers and Membershij) of the District Associations ; a
Ministerial and Ecclesiastical Record for the year ; Biographical Sketches
of deceased Ministers; Report of the National Council: abriefvietv of
the operations of the principal Congregational and Missionary Societies of
Great Britain and the United States ; Statistics; list of British, Colonial
and American Congregational Associations, Periodicals, etc.
JOHN WOOD, FOR THE CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
IST'S.
PBICE TEN CENTS.
A. S. WOODBURX, STEAM PKINTEii. ELGIN STREET.
OTTAWA.
PREFACE TO VOLUME VI.
There are no new features to note in this volume beyond a
slight alteration in the order in which the Eeports are inserted
designed to facilitate the early issue of the College Eeport in its
separate form. The lateness of tlie time of meeting of the Congre-
gational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has heretofore
rendered it impossible to get the Year Book out as early as is
desirable, but the change from September to July nest year removes
the difficulty, and future volumes may in consequence be expected
considerably earlier.
Being an important legal document, we publish an Appendix
to its Eeport, the Letters Pataat incorporating the Congregational
Publishing Campanj'. It will hd valuable for future reference.
KliaATA AND ADDENDA.
We were unable to get authentic statistical information respect-
ing the American Board of Foreign Missions in time for insertion in
its proper place (page 33), but through the kindness of Rev. i)\\
Cushing, of Boston, we are enable to make the following correc-
tions: — 82 stations, 534 outstations; 6 male assistant Missionaries;
227 female Missionaries ; a total of 391 sent out by the Society ;
1172 native pastors, etc, making a total of 1,563. 256 churches,
with a membership of 13,335. Income for 1878, 8441,391. The
Rev. James Herrick, of the Madura Mission, was born in Canada.
During the past jei\v donations were acknowledged from Ontario of
,^80.62; from Quebec of S 1,272.09; for Mission \Schools, $31.35; fur
Missionarv work among women, $1,039.75 ; total from Canada,
$2,423.81."
The statistics of the American Home Missionary Society should
also be corrected to read as follows: — Number of congregations
supplied with preaching, 2,237 ; 47 new churches organized ; 46
have become self-sustainhig ; 4,572 convertions reported, and
7,578 additions to the churches on profession of faith. The income
for 1877-8, was ^299,847,
J. WOOD.
Ottawa, October 21st, 1878.
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CONTENTS.
Page.
1. Calendar for the roar, October, 1878, to September, 1879 .... 5-7
2. Poetal Regulations .... .... .... .... 8
•^ Official List, 1878-9 9-11
4. The District Associations, their Membership and Meetings. (1.)
Western; (2.) Guelph; (3.) Central; (4.) Eastern; (5.) St.
Francis; (6.) Queen's Co., N.S. .... 12-14
5. Congregational Ministers and Churclies in Canada .... .... 15-16
6. Ministerial Record for 1877-8 17
7. The Annual Meetings of 1878 18
8. Biographical Sketches .... .... 19-25
9. The National Council of the Congregational Churches of the U.S.
1877 26-.S0
10. British Congregational Societies : — The London Missionary Soci-
ety ; the Home Missionary Society ; the Scottish Congregational
LTnion ; the Irish Evangelical Society; the Colonial Missionary
Society; English Chapel Building Societies; British and Col-
onial Colleges.... .... ... ... .... .... o0-.3'2
11. American Congregational Societies; the A. B. C. Foreign Mis-
sions ; the,American Home Missionary Society ; the American
Miss. Association; the American Congregational Union; Con-
gregational Publishing Society .... .... .... .... 33-H4
12. British Benevolent Societies .... .... .35
13. Statistics of Congregational Churches .... .... 36
14. British and Colonial Congregational Organizations .... 37
15. National and State Associations and Conferences in the U. S 38-39
16. Congregational Periodicals .... .... .... 39-41
17. Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, with Summary of
Statistics, Statistical Tables, &c 42-70
18. Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. . . . 71-85
19. Congregational College of British North America 86-111
20. Canada Congregational Missionarv Society .... 112-149
21. Canada Congregational Indian Missionar}' Society .... ... 1.50-168
22. Congregational Provident Fund .... .... 169-175
23. Congregational Publishing Company .... .... . 176-184
INDEX.
PAGE.
Annual Meetings of 1878 18
Associations, District Congrega-
tional ; Secretaries, 10 ; Wes-
tern, 12 ; Gaelpli, 12; Central,
13; Eastern, 13; St. Francis,
14 ; Queen's County, N . S 14
Bequest Forms of ;
College, 86 ; Missionary Society 113
Biographical Sketches, Revds. A.
J. Parker, 19; H. Sanders,
21; W. Clarke, 22
British and Colonial Congrega-
tional Organizations 37
British Benevolent Societies 35
Calendar 5
Canada, Population of 8
Congregational Publishing Com-
pany 176
College, Congregational B. N. A.
Alumni of, 86 ; Annual Meeting
of,94 ; By-laws and Regulations,
89 ; Course of Study, 88 ; Con-
tributions from Churches, 103 ;
Officers, 87 ; Report of Session,
95 ; Treasurer's Statement 102
Congregational Ministers in Can-
ada 15
Congregational Churches in Can-
ada 16
Congregational Societies, Opera-
tions of 30
Resolutions and Declaration of
Faith 43
Missionary Society, CanadaCong ;
Annual Meeting of, 115; Consti-
tion of, 113 ; District Commit-
tees of, 112 ; Officers, 112 ; Life
Members of,134; Reportofl878,
117; Subscription Lists, 137;
Summary of Conti'ibutions .... 136
Missionary Society, Canadian
PAGE
■ Congregatioual Indian : — An-
nual Meeting of, 150 ; Officers of 150
Missionary Society, Colonial : —
Officers _.: .. 11
Missionary Society, London : —
Officers" 11
Missionary Society, Newfound-
land Congregational Home .... 11
Official List, 1878-9 9-11
Pastor's Retiring Fund 174
Periodicals, Congregational . - . .39-41
Postal Regulations 8
Provident Fund Society, Cong. ;
Nineteenth Report. 169
Record for 1877-8, Ministerial
and Ecclesiastical 17
Statistics of Congregational
Churches of Great Britain, 36 ;
United States, 36 ; Summary,
Out, and Quebec, 63; Tables,
of do., 64; Tables of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick.. . . 82
Union Cong., England and Wales
37; Scotland, 37; Ireland, 37;
Colonial, 37 ; American, 34 39
Union Cong., Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick : 71
Constitution, 72 ; Officers, 71;
Mintit.esof'l878..,_ 77
Union, Cong., Ontario and Qite-
bec :Officers, 42 ; Annual Meet-
ing of, 52 ; Constitution and
Rules of, 45, 46 ; Contributions
from Churches, 61 ; Members
of,50 ; Appointments fbrl878-9,
42 ; Annual Meetings of, 48 ;
Papers for 1878-9, 42 ; Treas-
urer's Statement 62
United States, Cong. Organiza-
tions 38
CAIiEMDAR FOR THE YEAR, October, 1878, to September, 18T9.
Past events in Roman characters — Appointments for current year in Italics.
October, 1878— 3i Days.
November, 1878—30 Days.
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■Western Church, Toronto, opened 1876
[Rev. H. Sanders, Hamilton, 1873.
Rev. E. Barker ordained, 1855.
Crimean War begun 1853.
David Brainerd died 1747.
Emmanuel Cli., Brantford, org, 1875.
)■ Provincial SS Convention, Petci'horo',
) 1S78.
America discovered, 1495.
Savoy Confession published, 1858.
Battle of Queenston, 1812.
Battle of Hastings, 1066.
Ottawa Cliurcli dedicated, 1SG2.
Wiarton Church formed, 1875.
Rev. W. W. Smith ordained, 1865.
Lord Palmerston died 1865.
Rev. J. B. Sileox ordained, 1876.
[Rev. E. Barker inst. Milton, 1877.
Hamilton Church organized, 1835.
Rev. J. Howell ordained, 1835.
Edict of Nantes revoked, 1685.
Hampton Court Conference, 1603.
Rev. R., Mac Kay ordained, 1875.
Rev. W. Clarke ordained, 1830.
Rev. A. J. Parker died, 1877.
Rev. D. Macallum settled Athol, 1873.
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India proclaimed an Empire, 1858.
London Missionary Soc. formed, 1794.
Rev. Duncan McGregor ord., 1872.
Rev. F. H. Marling ordained, 1849.
Eaton Church formed, 1835.
Prince of Wales burn, 1841.
Martin Luther boi n, 1483.
Cong. Church, Danville, formed 1832.
London Church organized, 1837.
Synod of Dort, 1618.
Andrew Marvel born, 1620.
Tea destroyed in Boston H'r, 1773.
Rev. C. Duff, inst. Speedside, 1875.
Rev. J. GritUth, inst. Garafraxa, 1875.
John Williams killed, Erromanga.
Branti.ord New Church dedicated, '65.
Rev. H. Hughes, inst. Stratford, 1876.
Moose Brook, N.S. Church org. 1875.
Noel, N.S., Church org. 1875.
L. Selma, N.S., org 1875.
West Ch. Tor. and Maitland org. '75.
S Maitland, N.S., Church org. 1875.
Listowel New Church opened, 1876.
Rev. J. I. Hindley inst., Owen Sou.nd,
Von Tischendorf died, 1874. [1873.
St. Andrew.
December, 1878—31 Days.
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Coup d'Etat, Paris, 1852.
First con. convened in Edinburgh, 1557.
Secession from Ch. of Scotland, 1733.
Rebellion in Canada, 1837.
Rebels defeated at Toronto, 1837!
Papal Syllabus issued, 1864.
John Milton born, 1608.
Dr. Livingstone's expedition sail'd, '72.
Bond St. Church, Toronto, ded. 1863.
Prince Albert died, 1861.
Episcopacy restored in England, 1861.
Euibro New Churcli opened, 1877.
Kincardine New Church opened, 1876.
Rev. D. McGregor, Jr. , ordained, 1876.
Fergus Church dedicated, 1869.
Rev. J. L. Litch inst. S. Stanstead, 1877.
Shortest day.
St. Catharines Ch. formed, 1874.
Rev. E. Ireland inst. Danville, 1875.
Calvary ch. basem't op'd Montreal, '76.
Chridiiias. Quebec Church org. 1837.
Rev. H. Sanders died, 1878.
Rev. W. Jay died, 1853.
Rev. E. C. W. McColl ordained, 186S.
Stratford Church formed, 1S46.
Rev. J. Davis resigned S (Jaledon, 1877
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Pine Grove Church organized, 1841.
Manchester, N.S. Ch. re-opened, 1876.
Eng. Commonwealth estab. 1649.
Week of Prayer begins.
Georgetown New Church open'd, 1878.
Northern Church, Toronto, org. 1868.
Proclam. against Conventicles, 1661.
Northern Church, Toronto, ded. 1868.
Dissenting Deputies, 1736.
Emmanuel Ch., Montreal, op'd 1877.
Guelph New Churcli dedicated, 1868.
Rev. J. Wood inst. Ottawa, 1878.
Re\'. B. W. Day ordained, 1862.
Memorial Hall, London, opened, 1875.
Alton Church formed, 1S39.
Mrs. (Rev. J.) Roaf died, 1878.
Rev. A. Vaucarap inst. Brantford, '77.
Yarmouth, N.S., Ch. formed, 1848.
Frederick the Great born, 1712.
Stratford New Church opened, 1S74.
Princess lioyal married, 1858.
Ospriuge Church dedicated, 1874.
Keswick Kid-r Xuw Cli. op'd, 1877.
Matthew Wilks died, 1829.
Rev. 10. D. Sileox inst. StoutlV'c, 1877,
Rev. E. Ireland rcsigiied Danville, '77.
90S10H. |Afl»w»c«JU«rA oatflB
February, 1879.— 28 Days.
Parliament House, Que., burnt, 1S54.
Spanish Inquisition abolished, 1S13.
Churchill Chureh formed, 1838.
Dr. J. Pye Smith died, 1861.
Sir Thomas Abney died, 1772.
Rev. E. Rose inst. Eoonomj, N.S., '78.
Rev. J. Unsworth ordained, 1S5.3.
Rev. H. v. Powis ordained, 1853
Rev. W. H. Allworth ordained, 1848.
Mayo Church organized, 1877.
Eastern Church Montreal foriu'd, 1871.
Ohio N.S., C. Church formed, 1877.
Rev. R Brovn ordained, 1762.
Pope driven from Rome, 1798.
Rev. J. Wood ordained, 1853.
Rev. J. L. Forster inst. Montreal, 1878.
Rev. T. Pullar died, 1873.
Rev. W. Manehee ordained, 1866,
Robert Hall died, 1831.
Rev. C. Pedley died, 1872.
Dr. Thos. Goodwin died, 1680.
Rev. T. Bimiey died, 1874.
Zion Church, Toronto, burnt, 1855.
Corn Laws Repealed, 1849.
Vankleekhill Church formed, 1804
March, 1879.— 31 Days.
April, 1879.— 30 Days.
John Howe died, 1705.
Rev. A. Duff, inst. Sherbrooke, 1862.
Rev. S. N. Jackson ord. 1866.
Canada discovered, 1499.
Rev. D. Dunkerly died, 1873.
Great Fire in Toronto, 1847.
Quakers' Oaths abolislied, 1859.
Lord Bacon died, 1026.
Rev. Dr. W ilkes ordained, 1832.
Rev. Rowland Hill died, 1833 .
Rev. W. J. Cuthbertson ord. , 1877.
Edict of Nantes, 1598.
A. Lincoln assassinated, 1805.
Parker Church organized, 1870.
Internat. S.S. Con., Atlanta, Ga., '78.
Rev. J. Porter died, 1874.
Bond St. Church, Toronto, formed '49.
Cromwell dissolv. Long Parhn't, lli53.
Rev. W. H. Claris ordained, 1872.
St. George.
Rev. H. Peckover ordained, 1870.
Princess Alice born, 1S43.
Paris New Chureh opened, 1876.
Rev. W. Clarke died, 1878.
Test Act Repealed, 1828.
Southwarlc Cong, seized, 1032.
Puritans forbidden to emigrate, 1637.
Rev. R. Brown inst. Middleville, 1873.
Rev. H. J. Colwell, inst. Alton, 1875.
Yorkville Chureh org., 1876.
A. Lincoln, President U.S., 1801.
Rev. R. Miles died, 1855.
Acton Church, organized, 1877.
William III. died, 1702.
Rev. J. Allworth ordained, 1874.
Cong. Church, Ottawa, formed, 1860.
Kingston New Churcli ded., 1765.
Liverpool, N.S., New Church ded. '70.
Newmarket Churcli re-organized, '77.
Duchess of Kent died, 1861.
New Church, Manilla, ded., 1861.
Princess Louise born, 1848.
First rec'd eclipse of moon B. C. , 720.
Rev. D. Hickey ord. Pleasant River,
Spring begins.. [N.S. 1878.
Massawippi Church ded., 1862.
Queen Elizabeth died, 1603.
Annunciation.
First Printing in England, 1471.
Rev. J. L. Poore died, 1867.
Canada ceded to France, 1032.
Test Act passed, lb73.
Lord Metcalfe, Goy-Gen., 1843.
High Com. Court established, 1539.
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May, 1879.— 31 Days.
Slave Trade abolished. 1807.
Rev. W. Williams ordained, 1871.
Columbus discovered Jamaica, 1491.
Rev. A. Duff ordained, 1841.
Rev. C.B. Woodcock, ord., 1876.
London Tract Society formed, 1799.
Cong. Union, Eng., formed, 1832.
Cong. Library, London opened, 1831.
Centennial Exb. op'd Philadelpliia, '76.
Puritans sailed to Mass., 1629.
Col. Miss. Society estab. , 1836.
Garibaldi declared Dictator, 1860.
Embro Churcli organized, 1872.
Rev. H. D. Hunter inst. Newiu'kt, '78.
Free Church of Scotland, forni'd, 1843.
Act of Uniformity, 1662.
Coverdale died, 1567.
Bethel Cliurch, Kingston, formed '74.
Earl Dufferin, Gov. -Gen., 1872.
Rev. G. Willett ord. Vankleek Hill, '78.
Queen Victoria born, 1819.
Rev. R. W. Wallace ord., 1872.
Rev. W. W. Smith inst. Eaton, Que., '78.
Penry martyred, 1593.
Rev. J. C. Wright ord. Franklin, 1878.
Jerome of Prague martyred, 1416.
Douglas Churcli organized, 1808.
June, 1879.-30 Days.
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Rev. J. Shipperley ord. , 1872.
Rev. W. H. Warriner ord. Yorkv'e, '78.
[C. Union of Out. and Que., Kingston,
Rev. R. Hay ordained. 11879.
Reform Bill passed, 1832.
Rev. J. Salmon, ordained, 1862.
Dr. Carey died, 1834.
Rev. A. P. McGregor ord. Listowel, '78.
Cor .-stone Georgetown Church, 1877.
Rev. E. J.Sherrill died, 1877.
Rev. J. A. R. Dickson set. Tor. 1871.
Rev. Dr. Vauglian died, 18(iS.
Rev. H. D. Powis set, Toronto, 1878.
Alton Chm-ch opened, 1877.
Rev. D. McKinnon ord. Manilla, 1878.
Magna Cliarta signed, 1215.
Great Fire in St. John, N.B., 1877.
[Rev. H. Pedley, iust. Cobourg, 1877.
Dissent' rs admit, to Oxford Un., 1859,
H. B. Co. ter. ceded to Canada, 1870.
Don Mount Church ojjened, 1877.
Rev. W. Walker ord, Saugciui, 1877.
Rev. E. D. Silcox ord,, 1873.
Cong. Church, Meaford, formed, 1800.
Queen Victoria crowned, 1838.
St. Peter.
Conventicle Act passed, 10(54.
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Kelvin Cli. re-opened, 1S77
Dog days begin.
Dec. Am. Independence. 1776.
Star Cliamber abolislied, 1641
Edward IV. died, 1553.
Jolin Huss burnt, 1415. [Tor., '7S.
Corner Stone Bond St. new Church,
Import. Slaves to Canada prohib. '93.
Rev. W. Manchee inst. , Guelph, 1873.
Erasmus died, 1536,
Peace signed at Berlin, 1878.
Rev. A. McGill ordained, 1842.
Flight of Mahomet, 622.
Dr. Watts born, 1674.
Cor. Stone Wesley Ch.,. Montreal, '78.
Quebec capitulated to English, 1629.
Barrow & Greeiiwood imp., 1588.
Acton new Church opened, 1877.
Pilgrhn Fathers left Delft, 1620.
Jew,s admitted to Parliament, 1858.
Rev. G. Purkis ord., Waterville, 1867.
Oro Churcdi dedicated, 1869.
Irish Church disestablislied, 1809.
Six Diss'rs bu'-nt at Brentford. 1558.
ZionCh., Montreal, burnt, 1867.
New Toleration Act, 1812.
Rev. W. H, A. Claris ord. 1872.
Rev. J. P. Malcolm ord. 1877.
August, 1879.-31 Days.
September, 1879.-30 Days.
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Rev. R. Robinson ord., 1845.
Bank of England established, 1732.
Pilgrim Fathers sailed, 1020.
Prince Alfred born, 1844.
Atlantic Telegraph laid, 1867.
Middlcville Church formed, 1852.
Battle of Montmorency, 1859.
Dog days end.
Rev. B. W. Day, res. StouttVe ch. '70.
Braulford Church burned, 1804.
Rev. A. 0. Cossar ord. Belleville, '76.
Farewell Sermon. 2,000 ejected Clergy.
Dr. R. Halley died, 1876.
Caisar Augustus died A. D. 14.
Dr. Adam Clarke died, 1.S32.
Brigham Ch. dedicated, 1872.
Pompeii burned, A. D. 79.
"Black Bartholomew," France, 1572,
[England, 1062.
Prince Alliert born, 1819.
I/ondon new Church opened, 1876.
Grotius died, 1645.
Rev W. M. Pciieock set. Kingston, '74.
Rev. G. B. Bu(!her ilied, 1800.
Rev. S. N. Jackson, Kingston, 1877.
Rev. W. H. Heudebourck ord., 1830.
Oliver Cromwell died, 1658.
Rev. J. G. Sanderson ord., 1862.
Massacre of Jews in England, 1189.
Cony. Un. N. S. <£- N. D. meets.
Sebastopol taken, 1855.
United States first so called, 1776.
Rev. J. W. Cox ord., Cornwallis, 1877.
Rev. A . McGregor ord. 1803.
Rev. H. Sanders ord. 1854.
Duke of Wellington died, 1852.
Rev. h. P. Adams ord., 1840.
OrangeviUe new Church opened, 1877.
Halifax Church organized, 1848.
Rev. D. McGi-egor, Ijix'erpool, 1873.
Rev. C, Duflf ord. 1802.
Rev. J. Wheeler ord., 1839.
First Meeting of London M. S., 1795.
Charles I. dethroned.
Rev. R. K. Black inst,, Graiiby, 1876.
Albion Church organized, 1845.
Kconomy Church organized, 1877.
Society ot Jesus fornied, 1540,
Minlwdnws dai/.
Rev. E. Rose ordained. 1874.
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POSTAL EEGTJLATIONS.
CANADIAN POSTAL KEGULATIONS.
POSTAL BATES.— LETTERS.
LETTERS ADDRES.SED FROM OR TO PLACES IN CANADA AND UNITED STATES.
Not exceeding J oz. in weight, 3 cents, and 3 cents for every additional half ounce.
To Great Britain, either by Canadian or New Yorli Mail Steamers, not exceeding ^ oz. in'weight,
5 cents, and 5 cents for each additional half ounce.
DROP LETTERS, ^ oz. in weight, 1 cent each.
The above rates must in every case be prepaid by postage stamp. When posted unpaid they are
sent to the Dead Letter Office. If insufficiently paid, double the amount of tlie deficient postage
is charged on delivery.
REGISTERED LETTERS, for places in CANADA must be prepaid by stamp, in addition to the
postage rate, 2 cents each. To the UNITED STATES 5 cents each, and to the UNITED KING-
DOM, S cents each.
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS.
On all Newspapers and Periodicals, other than those from the Office of Publication, the postage
rate is 1 cent jier 4 ounces in weiglit, whicli must be prejiaid by ]iostage stamp. Newspapers
addressed to places in the United Kingdom must be prepaid by postage stamp, 2 cents per 4 oz.,
or fraction of i oz.
PARCEL POST.
The Postage on Parcels addressed to places in Canada must be prepaid by postage stamp at the
rate of 12J cents for each i lb. in weiglit. Parcels mnst not exceed i pounds in weiglit, or 24
inches in lengtli, and should Tie marked " By Parcel Post." Parcels may be registered by affixing a
5 cent Registered Stamp.
MISCELLANEOUS POSTAL MATTER.
Books and Pamphlets, Printed Circulars, Hand Bills, Book and Newspaper Manuscript, Printers'
Proofs, Maps, Engravings, Slieet Music, Photogra])hs, Seeds, Poors, &c., to any place in Canada or
the United States, one cent per 4 ounces in weight. Book Packets must be put up in wrappers
open at both ends. Patterns and Samples for jilaces in Canada, one cent per 4 ounces in weight,
and must be put up so as to admit of inspection. Sample Packets may be Registered. Patterns
and samples of merchandise for places in tlie United States, subject to the special rate of 10 cents
each, prepaid by stani]), and inust not exceed S ounces in weight. When addressed to jilaces in
the United Kingdom, they must be prepaid by postage stamp at 2 cents per 2 ounces, or fraction
of 2 ounces.
LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS FOR FOREIGN PLACES.
Via Canadian Steamer.
Germany and Prussia, ^ cents per J oz. and 2 cents for Newspapers.
Austria, Belgium, France, Gibraltar, Holland, Italy, Madeira, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzer-
land, Sweden, Smyrna, 10 cents per ^ oz. and 4 cents for Newspapers.
Africa, Australia, S. and W., Cape of Good Hope, India, New South Wales, New Zealand,
Queensland, Sierra Leone, Tasmania, 16 cents per ^ oz, and 4 cents for Newspaiiers.
Ceylon, 22 cents per ^ oz , and 4 cents for Newspapers.
Brazil, Mauritius, 24 cents per ^ oz., and 4 cents for Newspapers
Buenos Ayres, China, Hong Kong, Cuba, Mexico, Monte Video, West Indies, 28 cents per ^ oz.,
and 4 cents for Newspapers.
Via San Fraticisco.
Letters to Australia, S. and W., China, Fiji Islands, S cents per I oz. ; to Hong Kong, 13 cents
per I oz. ; to New South Wales and New Zealand, 15 cents per I oz. ; Sandwich Islands, 9 cents
per I" oz. , Newspapers, 3 cents.
POPULATION OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, 1S71,
Ontario, 1,020,851 ; QueViec, 1,101,573 ; Nova Scotia, 387,800 ; New Brunswick, 285,777 ; Prince
Edward Island, 94,021; Manitoba, 12,228; British Columbia, 10,586; total, 3,602,838.
POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1871.
England and Wales, 22,712,266 ; Scotland, 3,360,018 ; Ireland, 5,411,416 ; Islands, 144 638 ; xVrmy
and Navy (abroad), 229,000 ; total, 31,857,338.
OFFICIAL LIST.
OFFICIAL LIST, 18Y8-18Y9.
CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.
Chairman, — Rev. R. K. Black, Grtinby, Que.
Secretary- Treasurei\ — Rev. Prof. Fenwick, 267 St. Urbain St., Monti'eal.
Statistical Secretary. — Rev. W. H. Warriner, B.A., Yorkville.
Committee. — Revs. S. N. Jackson, W. M. Peacock, J. Wood, R. Mackav,
W. H. All worth, Dr. Wilkes, J. A. R. Dickson, Dr. Cornish, D.Macalluni;
Messrs. G. S. Fenwick, Thos. Robertson, George Robertson, J. H. McFarlane,
B. W. Robertson, J. Simmonds, G. Pini, F. B. Osborne.
The Union will meet in Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday, June 4tli, 1879,
at 7.30 p.m.
CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF NOVA SCOTIA AND
NEW BRUNSWICK.
(See Minutes.)
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY
General Committee for 1878-9.
Secretary- Treasurer — Rev. H. Wilkes, b.d., ll.d., 249 Mountain Street,
Montreal.
Ho'me Secretary — Rev. S. N. Jackson, m.d., Kingston, Ont.
Committee — Revs. W. H. Allworth, W. Hay, W. Manchee, J. Unsworth,
E. D. Silcox, J. G. Sanderson, D. Macallum, J. Wood, Prof. Fenwick,
R. Mackay, R. Brown, R. K. Black, J. W. Cox, Dr. Cornish, B. W. Day, and
D. McGregor, m.a.; Messrs. W. E. Welding, Geo. Scott, G. S. Fenwick,
J. Cameron, Geo. Pirn, C. Lawes, W. C. Young, and W. Reid.
DISTRICT COMMITTEES.
Ontario Western.
Secretary — Rev. W. Manchee; Revs. J. Salmon, b.a., C. Duff, m.a.,
W. Hay, R. W. Wallace, m.a., and Messrs. W. E. Welding, H. Cox,
S. Hodgskin, Dr. Hyde, and C. Whitlaw.
Ontario Central.
Secretary — Rev. E. D. Silcox, StoufFville, Ont.; Revs. J. B. Silcox,
J. A. R. Dickson, H. D. Powis, J. Unsworth, W. H. Warriner, and Messrs.
Jas. Smith, Joseph Barber, T. Parker, W. Revell, and D. Higgius.
Ontario Eastern.
Secretary — G. S. Fenwick, Esq., Kingston, Ont. ; Revs. S. N. Jackson,
W. M. Peacock, D. Macallum, John Wood, H. Pedley, b.a., A. 0. Cossar,
R. Mackay; Messrs. G. Robertson, B. W. Robertson, A. Christie, J. H. Mc-
Farlane, F. B. Osborne.
10 OFFICIAL LIST.
Quebec.
Secretary — Rev. A. Duff, Sherbrooke; Secretary of tlie Montreal Section,
C. R. Black, Esq., Montreal; Revs. J. F. Stevenson, ll.b., Prof. Fenwick,
R. K. Black, and J. L. Forster; Messrs. J. Baylis, R. McLachlan, P. H.
Burton, B. Hargrave, H. Hubbard, W. Addie, and Hon. J. G. Robertson, M.P.P
Nova Scotia and New Brunstvick,
Secretary — Rev. A. McGregor, Yarmouth, N.S. ; Revs. D. McGregor, m.a.,
J. Barker, S. Sykes, J. Shipperley, C. B. Woodcock, E. Barker, and the Hon.
F. Tupper, Messrs. Freeman Dennis, H. P. Bridges, T. B. Barker, and W.
Creelman.
CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
Chairman of the Board — Rev. J. F. Stevenson, ll.b., Montreal.
Secretary — Rev. Prof. Cornish, ll.d., 149 Metcalfe Street Montreal.
Treasurer — R C. Jamieson, Esq., 185 University Street, Montreal.
Directors— Revs. Dr. Wilkes, Prof. Fenwick, A. Duff, R. K. Black,
W. Williams, W. H. Alhvorth, S. N. Jackson, m.d., A. McGregor, A. J. Bray ;
Messrs. C. Alexander, H. Lyman, W. Moodie, H. Vennor, C. R. Black, Theo.
Lyman, B. Lyman, J. S. McLaclilan, W. R. Ross, T. Robertson, H. K. Ritchie,
and Geo. Hague.
Principal, and Professor of Systematic Theology, Homiletics, Pastoral
Theology, and Church History — Rev. Henry Wilkes, m.a., dd., lld.
Projessor Emeritus of Greek Testament Exegesis — Rev. G. Cornish, m.a.,
ll.d.
Vice-Principal and Professor of Church History and Apologetics — Rev.
K. M. Fenwick.
Professor of Greek Testament Exegesis Rev. J. F. Stevenson, LL.B.
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL INDIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
President — J. H. Richardson, Esq., m.d., m.r.c.s., Eng., Toronto.
Vice-Presidents — Revs. J. A. R. Dickson, S. N. Jackson, m.d., J. F.
Stevenson, ll.b., J. B. Silcox, and G. Hague, Esq.
Secretary — Rev. James Howell, Box 197 P. 0., Guelph.
Treasurer — J. C. Copp, Esq., 65 Grosvenor St., Toronto.
Directors — Revs. R. Robinson, J. Unsworth, C. Duff, m.a., J. Wood,
W. H. Warriner, H. D. Powis; Messrs. D. Higgins, J. D. Nasmith, 0. A.
Moore, Geo. Scott, James Farquhar, and James Adams.
Axiditors — Messrs. J. McDunnough and W. Freeland, Toronto.
CONGREGATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND SOCIETY.
Chairman — J. S. McLachlan, Montreal.
Vice-Chairman — Charles Alexander, Montreal.
Treasurer — J. C. Barton, Notman & Go's, Bleury Street, Montreal.
Secretary— G. R. Black, 509 St. Paul Street, Montreal,
Directors — Messrs. R. Dunn, Henry Birks, R. C. Jamieson, W. R. Ross,
T. Robertson, H. W. Walker, and H. K. Ritchie.
OFFICIAL LIST. 11
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
President — W. E. Welding, Esq., Brantford.
Vice- President — James Smith, Esq., Toronto.
Secretary -Treasurer and Editor — Rev, John Wood, Ottawa, P.O. Box 485.
Directors — Revs. J. B. Silcox, C. Duff, m.a., W. Manchee, J. Wood, and
Mr. John Wio'htman.
SECRETARIES OF DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS.
Western — Rev. J. A. R. Dickson, Toronto, Ont.
Central — Rev. W. W. Smith, Baton, Que.
Eastern — Rev. R. MacKay, Kingston, Ont.
St. Franois — Rev. A. Duff, Sherbrooke, Que.
Queen's County, N. S. — Rev. J. Shipperiey, Chebogue, N. S.
NEWFOUNDLAND CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY
SOCIETY.
President — Rev. Thomas Hall, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
Vice-President — Hon. P. G. Tessier, " *'
Treasurer — James Howe, Esq., " "
Secretary — R. Neyle, Esq., " "
COLONIAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Treasurer — James Spicer, Esq., 50 Upper Thames St. E. C, London.
Secretary— Rev. W. S. H. Fielden, Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street,
E. C, London, England.
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Treasurer — Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P.
Secretaries — Rev. Jos. Mullens, d.d.. Foreign Secretary; Rev. R. Robin-
son, Home Secretary ; Ofhce, Mission House, Blomfield Street, Finsbury,
E.G. London, England.
12 DISTEIOT ASSOCIATIONS.
THE DISTKICT ASSOCIATIONS.
I. THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION.
This Association meets in February and October, and is divided into
sections, for the purpose of more careful oversight ot the Churches within its
bounds, and ot making aggressive missionary efforts.
The London Section includes the Counties of Kent, Essex, Lambton,
Middlesex and Elgin. — Rev. J. Salmon, Embro, Secretary.
The Brantford Section includes the Counties of Brant, Oxford, Norfolk
Wentworth. — Rev. W. H. Allworth, Paris, Secretary.
The GuELPH Association includes the Counties of Huron, Bruce, Grey,
Wellington, Perth and Waterloo. — Rev. W. Manchee, Guelph, Secretary.
MEMBERS.
Rev. William Hay, Scotland,
" Anthony McGill, M.A., Barton,
" Solomon Snider, Michigan, U.S,
" J. A. R. Dickson, Toronto,
" W. H. Allworth, Paris,
" John Salmon, B.A., Embro,
Rev. J. I. Hindley, M. A., Owen Sound
" Enoch Barker, Fergus,
'' J. M. Smith, Michigan, U.S.,
" W. H. A. Claris, Sarnia,
" William Manchee, Guelph
" E.C.W.McCoLL,M.A.,Unionv'e
CHURCHES ASSOCIATED.
Southwold, Listowel, Guelph,
Paris, Fergus, Stratford,
Scotland, Garafraxa, Eramosa,
Hamilton, Douglas, Burford,
London.
REV. J. A. R. DICKSON, Toronto, Secretary.
II. THE GUELPH ASSOCIATION.
Chairman, Rev. James Howie. | Sec.-Treas.,REv. William Manchee
This Association comprises the following Churches : —
Clifford, Garafraxa, Howick, (Second)
Douglas, Guelph, (First) Kincardine,
Elora, Guelph, (Zion) Listowel,
Fergus, Howick, (First) Parker,
Speedside, Stratford, Turnberry.
It has also the following Pastors in fellowship : —
Rev. Charles Duff, M.A.,
" Joseph Griffith,
" M. S. Gray,
Rev. Ddgald McGregor,
" Henry Hughes,
" James Howie,
Rev. William Manchee.
The Association meets three times each year, in March, July and November.
DISTKICT ASSOCIATIONS.
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III. THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
This Association, composed of Ministers and Delegates of Churches in the
Central Missionary District, Ontario, holds two meetings in the year — in
January or Februar}^, and September. A Chairman is elected at each meet-
ing; the Secretary-Treasurer at the Autumn meeting.
MEMBERS.
Rev. Joseph Unsworth, Georgetown,
" Joseph Wheeler, Albion,
" Hiram Dexxy, Alton,
'' Thomas M. Reikie, Yorkville,
" Bexj. W. Day, Cowan sville, Que.
" Robert Robinson, Wiarton,
" Matthew S. Gray, Clifford,
" Samuel T. Gibbs, Toronto,
" William W. Smith, Pine Grove,
Rev. James A. R. Dickson, Toronto,
" R. BuLMAN, Markhani,
" C. H. SiLCOCKS, Meaford,
" E. D. SiLCox, Stouffville,
" J. I. HiNDLEY, M.A, Owen Sound
" J. Wood, Ottawa,
" H. J. CoLWELL, Alton,
" James Davies, Acton,
" J. B. SiLCOx, Toronto.
Georgetown,
Alton,
Albion,
South Caledon,
Churchill,
Bowmanville,
Acton,
CHURCHES ASSOCIATED.
Pine Grove,
Thistleton,
Toronto, Zion,
Markliam & Unionville,
Stouffville,
Yorkville,
Toronto, Northern,
REV. W. W.
Whitby,
Manilla,
Edgar,
Rugby,
Vespra,
Toronto, Western.
SMITH, Secretary.
The Association met at South Caledon, on 12th and 13th September, 1877 ;
Rev. Joseph Unsworth, Chairman. A conference was had on the state of
religion in the churches. The Association sermon was preached h}' Rev. J.
A. R. Dickson, from John chap. XVII, on " The Priesthood of Christ." Rev.
W. W. Smith read a paper on "How and what to read." Rev. J. A. R.
Dickson gave an illustrated essay on " The Synagogue, its History and Uses."
Public meeting, with addresses, on the evening of 13th.
On 12th and 13th February, 1878, the Association met at Acton, in the
new Congregational Church there; Mr. Joseph Barber, of Georgetown, Chair-
man. Interesting reports of the churches given. Rev. James Davis read a
paper on "Closet Devotion." Rev. H. J. Colwell preached the Association
sermon, from Acts IV, 31, "And the multitude of them that believed were of
one heart and of one soul." Rev. J. A. R. Dickson gave an illustrated lecture
on " The Pharisees, their History, Characteristics and Influence ; " and at the
public meeting in the evening of the 13th repeated his lecture on "The
Synagogue." Public addresses given during the sittings, by various members,
were on temperance and holy living, mode of receiving church-members, tem-
perance in the Bible, love to God, the liquor-traffic, revivals, the Bible,
Scripture Truth.
September meeting, 1878, to be at Owen Sound; Preacher, Rev. J. B.
Silcox.
IV. THE EASTERN DISTRICT ASSOCIATION.
Meets in October.
MEMBERS.
Rev. S. N. Jackson, M.D., Kingston,
" W. M. Peacock, Kingston,
" R. Brown, Middleville,
" J. Brown, Lanark Village,
" R. Mackay, Kingston,
Rev. J. Wood, Ottawa,
" D. Macallum, Athol,
" A. O. CossAR, Belleville,
" R. McKay, Kingston,
" Hugh Pedley, B.A., Cobourg.
REV. R. MACKAY, Kingston, Secretary.
14 DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS.
Programme for next meeting, which will be held in Kingston, in October : —
Essay on " The Lord's Day," by Rev. S.N. Jackson ; essays by Eevs. D.
Macallum and Hugli Pedley, review by Rev. John Wood; sermon by the Rev.
A. 0, Cossar. Text for general plan of sermon, Acts XX, 28, " The church
of Grod, which be hath purchased with his own blood."
V. THE ST. FRANCIS ASSOCIATION.
Meets in May and September.
MEMBERS.
Rev. A. Duff, Sherbrooke,
" L. P. Adams, Fitch Bay,
" J. Campbell, West Arran, Ont.,
Rev. George Purkis, Waterville,
" John McKillican, Danville,
" William McIntosh, Melbourne,
Rev. W. W. Smith, Eaton.
REV. ARCHIBALD DUFF, Sherbrooke, Scribe.
VI. QUEEN'S COUNTY CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
MEMBERS.
Rev. D. McGregor, m.a, Liverpool, n.s I Rev. Jas. Shipperly, Chebogue, N.S.,
" H. Peckover, Brooklyn, N.S. , | " M. Lowry. Tyrone, Ont.
The Meetings will beheld quarterly, each church being invited to send
delegates, when an Association sermon will be preached, papers will be read,
and Church and Mission Work in the County and neighbourhood prayerfully
considered.
LIST OF CONGEEGATION^iL MINISTEES,
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CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN CANADA, WITH THEIR POST-
OFFICE ADDRESSES.
Adams, L. P., Fitcli Bay, Que.
Allworth, W. H., Paris, Out.
Baker, Thomas, Hamilton, Out.
Barker, E., Milton, N. S.
Barker, S. P., Brantford, Ont.
Barker, Joseph, Sheffield, N. B.
Black, R. K., Granby, Que.
Black, J. R., B.A., St. Catharines, Ont.
Bray, A. J. Montreal, Que.
Brown, J., Lanark Village, Ont.
Brown, R., Middleville, Ont.
Burgess, E. J., Valetta, Ont.
Burgess, William, Valetta, Ont.
Campbell, J., West Arran, Ont.
Claris, W. H. A., Sarnia', Ont.
Colwell, H. J., Alton, Ont.
Cornish, G., li-.d., Montreal, Que.
Cossar, A. 0., Belleville, Ont.
Cox,- Jacob W., Noel, N. S.
Cuthbertson, W. J., Frome, Ont.
Davis, J., Acton, Ont.
T)ay, B. W., Cowansville, Que.
Denny, Hiram, Alton, Ont.
Dickson, J. A. R., Toronto, Ont.-
DufF, Archibald, Sherbrooke, Que.
Dutf, Charles, m.a., Speedside, Ont.
Durrant, John, Stratford, Ont.
Fawcett, J. B., Bronson, Ont.
Fenwick, K. M., Montreal, Que.
Forster, J. L. Montreal, Que.
Gibbs, S. T., Toronto. Ont.
Gray, M. S , ClitFord, Ont.
Griffith, J., Garafraxa, Ont.
Handford, T. W.. Toronto, Ont.
Hawes, J. B., Maitland, N. S.
Hay, William, Scotland, Ont.
Hay, Robert, Forest, Ont.
Heu de Bourck, W. H., Bowman ville.
Hickey, David, Pleasant River, N. S.
Hindley, J. I., m.a., Owen Sound, Ont.
Howell, James, Guelph, Ont.
Howie, James, Guelph, Ont.
Hughes, H., Stratford, Ont.
Hunter, H. D., Newmarket, Ont.
Ireland, Ebenezer, Danville, Que.
Jackson, S. N., m.d., Kingston, Ont.
Litch, J. L, Derby Line, Vermont.
Lowry, Martin, Tyrone, Ont.
Macallum, D.,-Athol, Ont.
Mackajr, R., Kingston, Ont,
Malcohn, J. F., Whitby, Ont.
Manchee, William, Guelph, Ont,
Matthieu, J., Grenville, Que.
McLellan, Jacob, Noel, N. S.
McColl, E. C.W., B.A., Unionville, Ont.
McGill, A., M.A., Ryckman's Corners,
Ont.
McGregor, Alex., Yarmouth, N. S.
McGregor, Arch. F., b.a , Listowei, Ont
McGregor, D., Jr., Manitoba.
McGregor, Duncan, m.a., Liverpool,
N.S.
Mcintosh, William, Melbourne, Que.
McKillican, John, Danville, Que.
McKinnon, D., Manilla, Ont.
Peacock, W. M., Kingston, Ont.
Peacock, W., Margaree, Cape Breton.
Pedley, H., Cobourg, Ont.
Powis, H. D., Toronto, Ont.
Purkis, G., Waterville, Que.
Reikie, T. M., Yorkville, Ont.
Robinson, R., Wiarton, Ont.
Rose, Edwin, Economy, N. S.
Salmon, John, b.a., Embro, Ont.
Sanderson, J, G., Edgar, Ont.
Shand, A., m.d., ll.b., Newmarket, Ont
Shijjperlev, James, Chebogue, N.S.
Silcox, Bl D. Stouffville, Ont.
Silcox, J. B., Toronto, Ont.
Silcocks,C. H., Meaford, Ont.
Smith, W. W., Eaton, Que.
Solandt, A., Inverness, Que.
Stevenson, J. F., ll.d., Montreal, Que.
Sykes, S., Keswick Ridge, N. B.
Uns worth, J., Georgetown, Ont.
Vancamp, A., Brantford, Ont.
Vessot, J., JoUiette, Que.
Walker, VV., (Indian) Saugeen, Ont.
Wallace, R. W., m.a., London, Ont.
Warriner, W. H, b.a., Yorkville, Ont.
Wheeler, Joseph, Albion, Ont.
Whitman, Jacob, Manchester, N. S.
Wilkes, Henry, d.d., ll.d., Montreal.
Willett, George, Havvkesburj^, Ont.
Williams, W., Montreal, Que.
Wood, John, Ottawa, Ont.
Woodcock, C. B., St .John, N. B.
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LIST OF CONGREGATIONAL CHUECHES.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES IN CANADA.
Abbotsford, Que.
Acton, Out.
Albemarle, Ont.
Albion, Ont.
Alton, Ont.
Beach Meadows, N. S.
Belleville, Ont.
Bowmanville, Ont.
Brantford, Ont.
Brantford, Emmanuel, 0.
Brigbam, Que.
Brockville, Ont.
Brome, Que.
Brooklyn, N, S.
Burford, Ont.
Caledon, South, Ont.
Cardigan, N. B.
Chebogue, N. S.
Churchill, Ont.
Clifford, Ont.
Cobourg, Ont.
Cold Springs, Ont.
Colpoj^'s Bay, Ont.
Cornwallis, N. S.
Cowansville, Que.
Danville, Que.
Derby, Ont.
Douglas, Ont.
Durham, Que.
Eaton, Que.
Economy, N. S.
Erabro, Ont.
Erin, North, Ont.
Fergus, Ont.
Fitch Bay, Ont.
Forest, Ont.
Frome, Ont.
Garafraxa 1st, Ont.
Garafraxa, North, Ont.
Georgetown, Ont.
Gran by, Que.
Guelpli, Ont.
Guelph, Zion, Ont.
Halifax, N. S.
Hamilton, Ont.
Hawkesbury, Ont.
Howick, Ont.
Indian Lands, Ont.
Inverness, Que,
Kelvin, Ont.
Keppel, South, Ont.
Keswick Ridge, N. B.
Kingston, 1st, Ont.
Kingston, North, Ont.
Lanark Village, Ont.
Listowel, Ont.
Liverpool, N. S,
London, Ont.
Maitland, N. S.
Maitland, South, N.S.
Manilla, Ont.
Magaree, N. S.
Markham, Ont.
Martintown, Ont.
Mayo, Ont.
Meaford, Ont.
Melbourne, Que.
Middleville and Rosetta,
Ont.
Milton, N. S.
Milltown, N. B.
Molesworth, Ont.
Montreal, Zion Ch., Que.
Montreal, Eastern, Que.
Montreal, Emmanuel, Q
Montreal, Calvary, Que.
Montreal, Wesley Ch., Q.
Moose Brook, N. S.
New Durham, Ont.
Newmarket, Ont.
Noel, N. S.
Ohio, N. S.
Oro, 1st Church, Ont.
Osprey, Ont.
Ottawa, Ont.
Owen Sound, Ont.
Paris, Ont.
Parker, Ont.
Pine Grove, Ont.
Pleasant River, N. S.
Quebec, Que.
Rugby, Ont.
Ruseeltown, Que.
Sarnia, Ont.
Saugeen, (Indian) Ont.
Scotland, Ont.
Selmali, Lower, N. S.
Sheffield, N. B.
Sherbrooke, Que.
Simcoe, Ont.
Speedside, Ont.
Stanstead, South, Que.
StoufFville, Ont. •
Stratford, Ont.
St. Andrews, Que.
St. Catharines, Ont.
St. John, N. B.
Thistletown, Ont.
Tilbury, Ont.
Tiverton, Ont.
Toronto, Zion, Ont.
Toronto, Bond St., Ont.
Toronto, Northern, Ont.
Toronto, Western, Ont.
Turnberry, Ont.
Vankleek Hill, Ont.
Vespra, Ont.
Warwick, Zion, Ont.
Warwick, Bbenezer, Ont.
Watford, Ont.
Waterloo, Que.
Waterville, Que.
Whitby, Ont.
Wiarton, Ont.
Windsor Mills, Que.
Wroxeter, Ont.
Yarmouth, Ont.
Yorkville, Ont.
miotsteeiAl and ecclesiastical kecokd. It
MINISTERIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD
FOR 1877-78.
I. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS.
Eev. W. Walker, ordained, Saugeen, July 25th, 1877.
" S. N. Jackson, m.d., installed at Kingston, Sept. 5th, 18*77.
" J, W. Cox, ordained and installed, Cornwall's, N.S.. September
12th, 1877.
" E. Barber, installed, Milton, N.S., October 19th, 1877.
" E. J. Burgess, ordained and installed. Tilbury, October.
" J. L. Litcb, installed. South Stanstead, Que., Dec. 20th, 1877.
" John Wood, installed at Ottawa, Ont., Januarj'- 16th, 1878.
" Edwin Eose, installed. Economy, N.S., February 7th, 1878.
" J. L. Forster, installed, Calvary Church, Montreal, February
18th, 1878.
" David Hickey, ordained and installed at Pleasant River, N.S.,
March 20th, 1878.
" H. D. Hunter, installed, Newmarket, Ont., May 16th, 1878.
" George Willett, of the Congregational College, B.N. A., ordained
and installed, Vankleek Hill, May 23rd, 1878.
" VV. W. Smith, late of Pine Grove, installed at Eaton, Que., May
27th, 1878.
" J. C. Wright, of the Congregational College B.N.A., ordained
and installed, Franklin Centre, Que., May 29th, 1878.
" W. H. Warriner, b.a., of the Congregational College of B.N.A.,
ordained and installed, Yorkville, Ont., June 4th, 1878.
" A. P. McGregor, b.a., of the Congregational College of B.N.A.,
ordained and installed, Listowel, Ont., June 11th, 1878.
" D. McKinnon, ordained and installed, Manilla, Ont., June 18th,
1878.
•' H. D. Powis, late of Quebec, began his work in Zion Church,
Toronto, June 16th, 1878.
II. CHURCHES ORGANIZED.
Economy, N.S., church organized September 26th, 1877.
III. RESIGNATIONS AND REMOVALS.
Eev. J. G. Sanderson, removed from Ottawa, September 20th, 1877
" J. Davies, relinquished South Caledon, Ont., Dec. 31st, 1877.
" E. Ireland, relinquished Danville, Que., Febi-uary 28th, 1878.
" E. J. Williams, relinquished Newmarket, Ont., April, 1878.
" W. W. Smith, removed from Pine Grove, May, 1878.
" D. McGregor, relinquished Kincardine, May, 1878.
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IV. DEATHS.
Eev. Ammi J. Parker died, Danville, Que., October 29th, 1877.
" Henry Sanders died, Hamilton, Ont., December 26th, 1877.
" William Clarke died, Dresden, Ont., April 27th, 1878.
V. CHURCH EDIFICES.
Orangeville Church, opened September 18th, 1877.
Northern Church, Toronto, i-e-opened October 7th, 1877.
Embro Church, dedicated December 16th, 1877.
Georgetown Church, dedicated January 6th, 1878,
Cobourg, new Lecture Eoom opened February 20th, 1878.
Kingston North, new church commenced, 1878.
Toronto, Bond St., corner-stone of new church laid July 8th, 1878.
Montreal, corner-stone of Wesley Church laid July 18th, 1878.
THE ANNUAL MEETINGS OF 1878.
In consequence of the withdrawal of Bond Street Church, Toronto,
from the Congregational Union, the annual meetings of the Union,
and its kindred Societies, was held in London, Ont., instead of Toronto,
This being the first time of meeting in London, the attendance was
unusually large and the hospitalit}^ shown most pleasant and
generous. Thirty-eight ministerial members, forty-two delegates,
and twenty honorary members, were enrolled. The retiring Chair-
man, Eev. J. A. E. Dickson, of Toronto, made "The elements needful
to success in denominational work," the theme of his address. The
Eev. E. K. Black, of Qranby, is the Chairman for 1878-79. Prof.
Fenwick was re-elected Secretary. A large number of new members
were received. A supplementary statement of the '•Ecclesiastical
Views" of Congregational Churches was adopted, and is printed as
ordered, along with the Doctrinal Statement of last year.
The income of the Missionary Society was about the same as in
1877. " How to increase it " was the subject of an earnest discus-
sion, introduced by a paper by Dr. Wilkes. The Missionary Super-
intendent, who had resigned, explained his reasons for doing so, in
his Eeport.
The College Eeport was unusually encouraging, sixteen students
having been in attendance. The financial statement was less satis-
factory. Prof. Fenwick was, on recommendation of the Board,
appointed Vice-Principal.
The Indian Mission work is progressing, but the Board of
Directors have lost a valuable helper in the removal of Eev. W. W.
Smith, the Secretary, to Eaton, Que. Mr. Lister, the English Mis-
sionary, is now living among the Indians, on the Manitoulin Islands.
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The Widows' and Orphans' Branch of the Provident Fund
steadily grows; the amount now invested is nearly $19,000. The
Eetired Pastors' Branch has been less prosperous.
The Publishing Company announced their intention of establish-
ing a weekly paper in January, 1879.
The several reports will be found in their places.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The EEV. A. J. PAEKER, of Danville, Que.
Eev. A. J. Parker, was the second son of Eev. James Parker,
and was born in Cornwall, Vt., July 24th, 1802. in his boyhood his
father removed to Bnosburg, Vt., and became the pastor of the
Congregational church in that place. While there, under the auspices
of the Connecticut Home Missionary Society, Eev. James Parker, in
company with Eev. Levi Parsons, made missionary tours in Noi'thern
Vermont, and the border towns of Canada, and founded several ot
the now existent and flourishing churches of that region. At four-
teen years of age, the subject of our sketch entered a mercantile house
in St. Albans, and four year later, in the same place, was deeply
convicted of sin, and yielded himself to Jesus. He at once consecrated
himself to God and his service, and entered upon a preparatory course
of study with the ministry in view. At the age of twenty-six he was
ordained as an Evangelist by Eev. Dr. Hopkins, of New Haven, with
whom be studied theology, Eev. Dr. Bates, President of Middlebury
College, Eev. Dr. Merrill, and Eev. Mr. Lovell. By invitation of
friends, the young evangelist went to Staustead, Canada, and there
preached his first sermon after ordination. He remained there three
months and then pushed farther into the eastern townshij)S on a
prospecting tour. Great destitution was found. For a circuit of sixty
miles there were only two preaching stations, Eichmond and HatJey,
and these were supplied by one clergyman connected with the Episco-
pal church. At Danville the limit of this missionary tour, there was no
school, nor church, and no religious privileges whatever were enjoyed.
Mr. Parker remained here one Sabbath, preached three times to large
audiences. Considerable enthusiasm was aroused by these services,
and three weeks later he received a letter, containing pledges to the
amount of $300, and the signatures of forty names under an urgent
invitation to come and preach the gospel for one year, if sufiicient
aid for his support could be secured elsewhere. This was supplied
by the Canadian Missionary Society, composed of American and
Scotch Presbyterians and Baptists. Eev. Mr. Christmas, of Montreal,
was their Secretary. Mr, Parker, returned to Danville and entered
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upon this Canadian field of labor April 9th, 1829. He was from the
very beginning kindly received by all the settlers, and was soon
earnestly and hopefully at work in the little village and vicinity.
Preaching services were well attended, and a Sabbath school was, as
soon as practicable, organized. In August of this year Mr. Parker
returned to Yermont and married.
About two years later a Congregational church was organized in
Danville of thirty-five members, mostly heads of families, and to this
number others were soon added. The church to-day is one of the
most substantial ones in Eastern Canada, From its families several
have gone forth to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. One, a
daughter of Mr. Parker, Mrs. Watkins, is an honored and highly
successful missionary of the American Board. For twenty years this
church was the only one in Danville, and into its communion were
received Christians of many different nationalities and ci-eeds. ■ Often,
in these early days, was the pastor called upon to attend funerals
twenty-five miles away, and I have heard him tell of riding twelve
miles on horseback to the Post office to get his mail. For forty
years he remained pastor of this one church, and in that time gathered
into the fold hundreds of souls. He has now passed to his reward on
high. After a long and severe illness, he passed away, October 29,
1877, and many there are that mourn his departure. God crowned him
with a hoary head and a good old age. Fifty years of the seventy-
five were devoted to his Master in active service. He leaves behind
a widow only one year his junior, and six children.
Probably no man connected with any church in Canada, and
especially that part of it now known as the Province of Quebec, was
as widely known as he. His shaping hand has been upon other
Congregational churches than the one of his especial fostering. He
loved Congregationalism, but not other Christian denominations less
for that. The sturdy principles of New England he carried to the
grave, and by them he sought to shape church, community and home.
Though firm as the rocks of his native Green Mountain State when
principle was involved, yet he was generous and charitable to
opponents. His heart was a fountain of tender sympathies lor all in
need. Many were the instances where the poor Roman Catholic
would come to " Priest Parker," as they revorentl}' addressed him,
for counsel in trouble, and today among his most ardent admirers
and most sorrowful mourners are adherents of that faith. With.
other good things he had humor, which often relieved hard and
unwelcome experiences of some of their sombreness. Blessed is the
home missionary that can summon and produce smiles and laughter
even in the face of want and suffering ! He used to call his field of
labor " the north-eastern corner of creation," but as a faithful labourer
he tilled it earnestly, though for a long time in worldly obscurity.
His salary was always small, but with it, and the productions of a
farm he gained for himself and family in his later days at least a
comfortable living. Though not without faults, in the community
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W^iere hfe lived ktid served so long, among the many who have known
him in earlier or later life, the memory of Eev. Ammi James Parker
will be lovingly cherished in time, and we believe in eternity also.
tHE EEV. HENEY SANDEES, of Hamilton, Ont.,
Mr. Sanders was a native of Leicestershire, and was born on
August 9th, 1827, being therefore in the 5l8t year of his age at his
death. At a very early age he had to go to work, and continued at
business until about his 21st year, when he entered Eotherham College
as a student, where he honorably completed his course, matriculating
in London University in 1852, in the First Division. In 1854 he
settled as pastor of Providence Chapel, Whitehaven, where he built
up a strong chm-ch, and after five years ministry there, he accepted
the invitation to become the pastor of Zion Church, Wakefield,
Yorkshire, where he labored wilh great acceptance for 14 years, the
church doubling its membership in that time. Mr. Sanders had a
large and appreciative congregation and an attached and loving
chui-ch. The distress of his flock when he decided to accept the
invitation sent him by the church at Hamilton was sincere and
universal. Not only was this the case with the church of which he
was pastor, but with the entire christian public of the town of
Wakefield.
When the church at Hamilton became vacant through the
lamented death of the Eev. Thomas Pullar, its former pastor, the
attention of the church was directed to Mr. Sanders from the fact of
his having preached in the chui-ch on the occasion of a holiday spent
in Canada, in the summer of 18*72, Mr. Sanders thought that the
drier air of Canada would be favorable to a threatened affection of
the throat, and that he might be able to build up a strong cause
in the city in the course of a few years if he had his health.
Upon prayerful consideration he accepted the inritation sent, and
amid general regret at his decision, but with the best wishes of
a loving people, lie set sail for Canada in September, 1873, arriving
here and commencing his ministry on the first sabbath of October of
the same year.
For the first three years of his ministry here he found great
benefit to his health, and the prospects of pastor and people
seemed bright. On the occasion of the illness of the late Mr.
Thomson he went to watch by him when he removed to Gruelph,
and from that time he never seemed to be quite well. In March he
was laid aside from active duty. In June a visit to Dansville, N. Y.,
was recommended to him, from whence he returned early in July,
feeling much better. He was anxious about the church, and was
afraid that he was a burthen — and began his pastoral duties sooner
than he should have done. He labored on till November, when he
was again laid aside. The church which had undertaken to supply
the pulpit in his absence in the summer, feeling that he must have a
prolonged rest gave him six months leave of absence, offering to take
c
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the responsibility of the pulpit supply meanwhile. It was his
intention as soon as he had sufficient strength to take a voyage to
England. This was never to be realized, for on the 21st Decomber
he got worse, and then gradually sank until, on the 26th, he passed
peacefully away as mentioned above. His only desire was to live
that he might work for the church, the debt thereon giving him great
anxiety. His end was peace.
Mr. Sanders was possessed of fine mental powers and his qualities
of head were only equalled by those of his heart. He was but very
Imperfectly known by the brethren of the denomination in Canada.
To know him intimately was to love him. He was remarkable for
his transparency of character. He hated all seeming, and was as
unassuming as a little child. Nothing could have been more alien to
his feelings than the language of flattery, but the writer of this
imperfect sketch cannot forget that "the memory of the just is
blessed," and that therefore it is a fitting thing to hang some slight
tribute of affection on the grave of one so richly gifted both by nature
and grace, and who brought to the work of the gospel ministry a
cultured and powerful intellect, and a vor}^ decided but very unosten-
tatious piety. He was diligent and conscientious in his preparation
for the pulpit, and as a "scribe well instructed " in the Kingdom of
Heaven he brought forth out of the treasury of the Word, " things
new and old."
As a pastor, his kindly interest in young and old, and his
sympathetic visits to the chamber of sickness, and the home of
bereavement, will not soon be forgotten. The Eev. Dr. Stewart,
who preached in the church on the sabbath following his death,
remarked :
"He was very highly esteemed by his brethren in the ministry,
in the cit}- of Hamilton, by whom his qualities of head and heart
were fully appreciated. Especially did they esteem him for his rare
modesty and transparent integ.iity, for the wisdom of his counsels,
and the generousness of his nature. As President of the city branch
of the Evangelical Alliance, and as Corresponding Secretary of the
local Bible Society, he rendered efficient and valued service to the
cause of Christ in Hamilton. We know from declarations made at
the annual meetings of these societies, held since his death, that the}'
mourn his comparatively early departure as making a blank in their
ranks which will not readil}^ be filled."
The funeral of our departed brother took place on the 29th,
when his mortal remains were carried to Gruelph, and deposited near
those of his brother-in-law, the late Mr. Thomson.
The eev. WILLIAM CLARKE, of Dresden, Ont.
Mr. Clarke was a native of Coventry. England, and held the
freedom of that ancient burgh, a distinction he greatly prized, feeling,
like St. Paul that he was " a citizen of no mean city." He was born
December 22nd, 1801, so that at the time of his death, he was in the
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77th year of his age. His father was a local preacher and leading
ofificial member of the VVesleyan Methodist body, and he received his
first impulses heavenward in connection with that branch of the
Christian church. But becoming interested in the ministrations of
the JRev. John Sibree, he ultimately sought membership in the
Concrreo-ational church of which that eminent minister was so Ions
the successful and honored pastor.
His preaching talents were first developed at open air and cottage
services in neglected villages adjacent to his native town. He encoun-
tered not a few of those outbreaks of persecution to which village
preachers in England were no strangers at that time. He was
repeatedly pelted with rotten eggs. Once a pail of blood was bung-
in the tree under which ho was wont to preach, the design being to
tip the contents on him, but fortunately the plot was discovered in
time to avoid the unpleasant catastrophe- On another occasion, a
table with a big book on it was placed in front of him, and a donkey
held with his forelegs on each side of the book, facing the preacher.
None of these things moved him however. The tact and suavity for
which he was always distinguished, enabled him to soften down much
of the opposition at first manifested ; he won seals to his ministry;
and to the end of life derived much satisfaction from the review of
his first evangelistic labours and their blessed fruits.
Deeming himself divinely called to make the gospel ministry bis
life-worif, and feeling the need of preparatory study, he anxiously
considered the question of ways and means for carrying his convic-
tions of duty into effect. Already a husband and father, much
self-denial and sacrifice were involved in this course, not only on his
own part, but on that of his wife. She, however, with the heroic
spirit usually characteristic of the true Christian woman, stood bravely
by him, cheerfully accepting the poverty and" privation involved, for
her husband's and still more for her Saviour and Master's sake.
Having no means independent of the business in which they were
engaged, the returns from which were but scant, it required sti'ong
faith on the part of the young couple to resign their livelihood and
that of their babes, and launch forth on a sea of uncertainty. Worldly
prudence frowned on the procedure, but
"Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,
And looks to God alone.
Laughs at impossibilities
And cries, ' It shall be done.' "
Mr. Clarke studied for the ministry in Hackney Acadera}-, then
under the presidency of* the Kev. Greorge Collisson. Kev. W. P.
Wastell, first pastor of the Congregational Church in Guelph, and
now of Clinton, Michigan, was a fellow student at Hackney. Their
companionship in study led to their subsequent association as fellow
missionaiies of the Colonial Missionaiy Society to this country, and
to many pleasant years of co-operation in the pioneer work of
Canadian Congregationalism. In the capacity of an occasional supply,
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he made the acquaintance of Eowland Hill, Wm, Jay, John Angell
James, Dr. Leifchild, Thomas Binney and other great lights of the
modern English pulpit, receiving from them much helpful counsel
and man}^ kindnesses. His personal reminiscences of these great
and good men were very entertaining and instructive.
At the close of his preparatory studies, in the spring of 1830,,
Mr. Clarke became pastor of the Congregational Church, in Godalming,
Sui'rey. Here he remained until March, 1837, when he resigned his
charge to accept the appointment of the Colonial Missionary Society
which brought him to this country. His people were much attached
to him, and held a farewell meeting on the eve of his departure, at
which many tenderly regretful utterances were made, and a beautiful
urn was presented, having a suitable inscription on a silver plate,,
commemorative of his pastoral connection with them. This urn
remains, a highly-prized heirloom, in the possession of the eldest son
of the family. Hi-i career during the forty-one years of his residence
in Canada, is so well known, that only a brief epitome of it need
here be given. Such an epitome is contained in the following
extract from an obituary notice which appeared in the Montreal
Witness at the time of his death : —
" Mr. Clarke came to this country in the spring of 1837, under the auspices
of the Colonial Missionary' Society. He settled first in London, C. W., where
he laid the foundation of what is now a flourishto;^ Congregational Church..
From that as a centre of operations he extended his labors into regions beyond,
and was instrumental in originating other churches. He earlj^ espoused the
Temperance cause, and in conjunction with the late Simeon Morrill and other
well-known leaders in the movement, at an early day did much toward intro-
' ducing this great reform. From London, Mr. Clarke was transferred to Simcoe,
where he labored for several years with great energy, adding to his other
activities much good work in the cause of education. A number of years since
he settled in Dresden, where he did not find so favorable an opening for a
Congregational cause as he had anticipated, consequently he devoted much
time and strength to more Catholic and general schemes of usefulness. He
did much good work for the French Canadian Missionary Society, on whose
behalf he crossed the Atlantic several times, and successfully presented the
claims of this organization to British Christians. He travelled much in this
country on the same behalf. A natural born pleader for good objects he was
much in request as an agent or collector, and helped several Congregational
schemes greatly in this way. The College, Widows and Orphans' Fund,
Indian Mis3ion,"^and Pastors' Retiring Fund, were all successively taken up
by him, and always with success. For some years he was afHicted with
aneurism in the neck which required the avoidance of exciting engagements.
Under a quiet regimen it became dormant, but with declining years and
growing weakness and infirmity it assumed an active form again, so that for
some months past, he was liable at any time to die from hemorrhage. Peace-
full}- he awaited the inevitable hour, which came at length, and found him
ready for tlie long expected summons. He had reached a ripe old age, being
in his 77th year. His widow, and nine children, till now an unbroken family
circle, mourn his loss and cherish his memory with loving esteem."
To the above may be added that while connected with the Indian
mission, he travelled the Korth shore of Lake Huron, Colpoy's Bay,
Manitoulin Island and other outposts of civilization, establishing
mission stations, and preaching the gospel to the aborigines. Had
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he been yonnger, it is probable he would have devoted himself wholly
to this work, in which he took a warm and unflagging interest. As
it was, his exposures and toils helped to undermine his health, none
too robust, and he was compelled, though reluctantly^ to quit the
Indian field.
For several months prior to his death it was manifest to all
about him that he was gradually foiling as to his general physical
condition. Ultimate recovery he never expected, but he had rallied
80 as to be able to be tolerably comfortable, get about the house, and
walk a little out of doors, many times and until the day before his
death, with his usual sanguine and hopeful spirit still strong in him,
spoke of soon being up again. But there was no rebellious clinging
to life, and no tormenting dread of death. He was ready for the
summons come when it might. He had literally walked in the
valley of the shadow of death for years, hut not without being-
conscious of the gracious pi-esence of the Divine Shepherd. He had
no rare ecstatic experiences, but better than these, an abiding faith
in Christ's ability and willingness to save, ^nd as the result, an
abiding peace. His language in regard to himself was uniformly
and afiectingly humble. He fled not only from sinful self, but from
religious self, to the one only Eefuge for the lost.
There are no remarkabl(i death-bed utterances to report, but we
have the precious m>emory of many simple, heart-felt ex]Dressions of
trust in an all-sufficient Saviour, and of " peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ." Anything in the way of "last words" or
special m^essages wei*e precluded by the way in which death came to
him. The day before his departure, and probably without his being-
aware of it, his physical energies yielded to the combined strain of
age, infirmity and disease, and he passed into a painless, drowsy
condition, which continued until he breathed his last. His end was
that implored by his old friend, Eowland Hill, in touching lines, to
which every christian heart instinctivel}^ adds its "amen" : —
" Gently my Saviour let me down
To slumber in the arms of deatli."
Peacefully and quietly ho sank to his everlasting rest, and
literally "fell on sleep."
" So fades a summer cloud away,
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er,
So gently shuts the eye of day,
So dies a wave along the shore.
26 THE NATIONAL COrNCIL OF CONGPwEGATIONAL CHUKCHES.
THE :^ATIOIsrAL COUIS^CIL
OF THE CONGEEG-ATIONAL CHURCHES OF THE TJNITED STATES,
The third triennial Session of the National Council of the
Congregational Churches of the United States was called to order at
the Second Church in Detroit, Oct. 17th 1877, at eleven o'clock, b}'-
Charles Demond, Esq., of Boston, Chairman of the Provisional
Committee. A similar National Council was held in Boston in
1865, just at the close of the War. The tirst of this triennial series
met, however, at Oberlin in 1871, and the second at New Haven in
1874.
The intrinsic interest connected Avith the gathering of so large
a representative body, makes it meet that we should place on record
in our Year Book, a brief digest of its proceedings.
The attendance at the opening session was very large. The
number of Ministers present was 2()7 ; Lay Delegates, 69 ; Honorary
Members, 22 ; total, 298 ; representing churches and ecclesiastical
bodies in 25 States and Territories, and the Dominion of Canada..
Ex-Governor Washburn of Massachusetts, was elected Moderator,,
and President Chapin, of Beloit College, and Hon. Gr. C. Hammond,,
of Chicago, Assistant Moderators, the Eev. W. H. Moore, Kegislrar,
with several assistants; and the Eev. A. H. Quint, D.D., Secretary.
Mr. Washburn, the Moderator, made a brief address, expressing
the hope that all the business of the meeting might be characterized
by such good sense and wisdom as to subserve the best interest of
the churches and the cause represented ; and called on Dr, Chapin,
who led the assembly in prayer.
The Rev. Dr. Sprole, pastor of the church with whom the
Council met, gave an address of welcome.
Pev. A. H. Quint, D.D., as Secretarj^, recommended that a
special committee be apjoointed to consider the matter of uniform
statistics of the churches — which was subsequently done. He also
reported the present number of Congregational churches in the
United States as 3,509, an increase of 184 since 1874. The church-
membership was now 350,658, an increase of 26,978 since 1874.
There had been no falling off in benevolent contributions, notwith-
standing the great depression of business.
Rev. E. H. Richardson, D.D., of Hartford, read a paper by
ex-President Woolsoy of New Haven, on The Bible in Schools, Dr.
Woolsey being unable to be present. This paper was referred to a
large and influential Committee, upon whose report, the Council
subsequently passed the following resolutions: —
1. Whatever system of schools is adopted by the State, there is a
necessity and a duty of teaching moral duties.
2. In the practical teaching of such duties, ethics cannot be altogether
dissociated from religion. This [truth can hardlj' be too strongly impressed.
3. We cannot consent to a division of the school funds among various
sects. The result would be disastrous.
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CONGREGATIONAL CHUECHES. 27
4. We cannot abandon our Public School system on account of tliedifB-
culties with infidels or with Roman Catholics. Such a calamity is not called
for by any just spirit of concession to conscience. Good sense will dictate
what concessions may be called for in specific circumstances. The use of the
Douay version by Roman Catholic iDupils or schools, or of a volume of
selections from the Scriptures which should contain nothing obscure in mean-
ing or archaic in style, or open to sectarian construction, or some other
jDOSsible adjustment (conceived in the spirit of Dr. Woolsey's suggestions), of
the difficultieSjraised by Roman Catholic parents, should meet the approbation
of reasonable men. But we are convinced that the safety of societj'- requires
that in our schools moral duties, the morality which is taught in the
Scriptures, and which is rooted in loyalty to God, should be impressed upon
the pupils. It must be remembered that in those schools the great mass of
our people receive all their education. If they are to be trained to honesty,
to respect for the rights of property, to contented and intelligent industry, lo
all those virtues which are the prime condition of order, and peace, and
prosperity, they should be imbued in those schools with those deep and
searching moral principles which are set forth nowhei-e rise so forcibly as in
the Christian Scriptures. As a historical fact it has been from the beginning
the aim and the desire of the American people to have their schools -pervaded
with the spirit of Christian morality. It should be regarded as the duty of all
Christian pastors and teachers to endeavor to keep the public mind so
educated that this spirit shall be perpetuated in the schools. We earnestly
urge all our churches to strive by all proper means so to enlighten and
instruct the communities in which they do their Christian work as to prevent,
if possible, the demand for the entire exclusion of the Bible from our Public
Schools.
Wednesda}' evening was devoted to a sermon by the Rev.
Dr. Zachary Eddj^, of Detroit, from Hosea xiv. 5-7.
On Thursday morning the work and condition of the various
Benevolent Societies were presented: — The Congregational Union;
The American College and Education Society; The Congregational
Publishing Society ; The American Missionary Association ; The
American Home Missionary Society ; and the American Board of
Foreign Missions. The work of these several Societies was cordially
endorsed by the Council. In the afternoon, the Eev. S. E. Herrick
read a paper on Evangelistic Work ; following which, various Foreign
Bodies presented their salutations; among them the v ongregational
Union of Ontario and Quebec, represented by the Eev. Eobert Hay,
of Foiest, Ont,
Rev. H. M. Dexter then read a paper on " ChurchlesB Pastors
and Pastorless Churches," which occupied the remainder of the
session.
On Thursday evening the services were held in the First
Church. The Rev. Dr. Goodell, of St. Louis, spoke of " Woman s
jilace in the Religious Work of the Times ;" the Rev. Arthur Little, of
Wisconsin, on '■^ Felloviship Meetings /' and the Rev, H. C. Trumbull
on the " Sabbath School." With reference to the last of these subjects,
the Council resolved ; —
1. That the Sabbath school is not an organization independent of the
church, but one form of church work.
2. We emphasize the importance of giving instruction to the scholars in
the great principles of religion, and in the doctrines and polity of our
churches.
28 THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.
3. We commend the Sunday school work of the American Home Mission-
ary Society to the churches for their enlarged support.
Friday morning was occupied with a Eeport, read by Eev. Dr.
Wolcott, fi-om the committee appointed at the last JSTational Council,
on the Parish system,, a most elaborate document (occupying more
than two hours in the reading), rich in historical research, and the
collection of facts now existing upon the subject. After viewing
the JSiblical aspects of the question, which, in the judgment of the
Committee were against the system, and the moral considerations
bearing on the subject, the judgment of the committee was stated,
which favored the reform of the parish system, rather than its
abolition. But the church must be kept supreme. A legal co-opera-
tion, so arranged as not to impair their supremacy, was thought to
be desirable. Some hints were then given as to a few legal changes
which would be needed in some of the States, and a form of Consti-
tution of such a society was appended. The Eeport was ultimately
left over to the next meeting of the Council.
The work and claims of the several Theological Seminaries,
occupied the remainder of the morning.
On Friday afternoon the Eev. Gr. L. Waller, D.D., as chairman
of a committee appointed by the Council of 1871, made a report on
Ministerial Standing, as follows : —
Whereas, The Council of 1871 affirmed that ''all ministers in our denomi-
nation ought to be in orderly connection with some ministerial or ecclesiastical
organization which shall be able to certify to their regular standing in the
ministry;" and,
Whereas, There is reason to believe that an increasing number of
ministers in our communion are not so connected; while at the same time it
is true that nearly two-thirds of our ministers are not installed pastors, and
more than a majority of our ordinations are ordinations without special
cliarge — facts which tend strongly toward uncertainty of ministerial connec-
tion ; therefore
Resolved, That a special committee of five be appointed to enquire into
the facts and the various usages of our denomination respecting ministerial
responsibility and standing, and report to the next triennial Council with such
recommendations as they may deem advisable.
Resolved, That meanwhile we earnestly recommend to the churches the
careful ascertainment, before employing any minister, of the fact of his
regular standing in some recognized ecclesiastical connection.
Next came up for discussion some resolutions offered by
President Bascom, of Wisconsin University, in regard to the support
ot State Universities. The Committee to whom they were referred,
reported generally to the effect that the ordinary college cannot
safely be abandoned, but should be sustained ; while at the same
time, there need be no antagonism to the university.
The Eev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., from the Committee on
Sabbath Observance, reported a minute, which was adopted stating
that owing to various causes specified, —
" Sabbath desecration has assumed alarming proportions, and summons
the churches of Christ to a new and vigorous campaign for its repression. . .
We do not presume here and now to determine and decide what are labors of
necessity and of mercy; what kinds of work are imperatively demanded for
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CONGREGATIONAL CHUKCHES. 29
the security, peace and comfort of organized society. These necessities vary
Avith the growing complexity of civilization and the compactness of social
life, and are therefore incapable of rigid definition. . . . Work must be done
on the Sabbaths by many persons an^ in many places, or we shall not be safe
as we walk the streets or worship in our sanctuaries. But the labor should
be reduced to a minimum; it should -be able to plead in justification the
pressure of a clear social necessity. . . . Needless labor we, as Christians
and patriots, are bound to deprecate and condemn, whether in private men or
corporate associations. And we are equally bound to plead for every man's
right to at least such a share in the Christian Sabbath as that he shall not be
deprived of his religious privileges. . . . We emphasize the timeliness of
the appeiil of the memorialists, and join with them in a call to all our
churches, conferences and associations, to put on the whole armor of God in
a new and stalwart defense of that article of the faith once delivei'ed to the
saints, which concerns the reverent and religious use of the Christian Sabbath.
Friday evening was devoted to a religious meeting, (no business
being transacted), addressed by the Eevds. Eichard Edwards, LL.D.,
of Princeton, 111, E. Y. Hincks of Portland, Me., Eobert G-.
Hutchings, D.D., of Columbus, O., and A. J. F. Eehrends, D.D., of
Providence, E. I.
On Sutui'day morning, the Eev. Dr. Wolcott, from the Com-
mittee on the Memorial from New Jersey urging that there are
objections to a ■National Council like this, meeting statedly, and also
to the name Council, reported resolutions to the effect that the
Council has attended vigorously to its work, and vindicated its right
to be. The report was unanimously adopted.
The Eev. E. Y. Hincks, from the Committee on the Home
Missionary Society, reported that there is not one of the Western
States, except Ohio, whose churches are self-supporting, and taking
the ground that the States of the Interior ought to make an advance
in their contributions to thi^ cause. The report recommended that
the Interior States at once assume a position of self support. Many
churches now receiving aid should come up to a position of inde-
pendence, and the enquiry was made whether the committee at New
York should not, at the beginning of the year, decide upon the
amount of aid which any State can receive. The report also
suggested the impor.ance of a fiscal agent at Chicago. To this
several other paragi-aphs were subsequently added by the Committee,
expressing entire confidence in the administration of the Society, all
of which were enthusiastically adopted.
Ex-Grovernor N. Dingle}', Jr., of Maine, in behalf of the business
committee, reported the following minute, which was unanimously
adopted :
Resolved, That we re-affirm our conviction that the use and sale of intoxi^
eating liquors as a beverage, and the intemperance to which these lead, are
serious obstacles to the progress of true Christianity, as well as injuries to
every other interest of society; and we urge upon our churches and ministers
renewed activitv in the use of such "agencies as are best adapted to discour-
age drinking habits, and remove, so far as possible, the external temptations
which foster them.
On motion of the same committee, the following was also passed :
Resolved, That the Publishing Committee be requested to report to the
next triennial Council, and recommend to (;he chu,rcli,ea some uniform system
30 , BEITISII CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETIES.
of dealing with the following classes of persons found recorded as members of
the churches :
1. Those who have been long registered as non-resident, and concerning
whose where-abouts the church have no knowledge.
2. Those who have requested and received letters of dismission, and yet,
as to their connection with any other church, the church has no knowledge.
3. Those who have been for a long time absent, and yet refuse to request
letters of dismission.
The Business Sessions closed on Saturday evening, but a large
number of the ministers and delegates remained over the Sabbath,
on M^hich occasion the Lord's Supper vpas administered, at the First
Church, in the afternoon, Eev. Drs. E. Iv. Alden and A. L. Chapin
officiating. At the close a most touching and impressive prayer was
offered by Eev. C. W. Wallace, D.D. Gov. Washburn then declared
the Council adjourned, and Eev. S. Wolcott, D.D., pronounced the
benediction.
BKITISH COISTGREGATIONAL SOCIETIES.
The London Missionary Society.
The Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of this Society was held in
Exeter Hall, London, May 9th, 1878. The Eev. Dr. Mullens, the
Foreign Secretary, read the Eeport. The present staff consists of
about 150 missionaries ; 317 native ordained missionaries and pastors,
and 3,613 native preachers. The income for the previous year was
£120,891 stg., and the expenditure, £124,740. It has eight principal
missions, denominated respectively: — The China, North India, South
India, Travancore, Madagascar, South Africa, West Indies, and
Poljmesian Missions.
The Home Missionary Society.
Was established in 1819, with the design of evangelizing " the
unenlightened inhabitants of the towns and villages of Great JBritain,
by the preaching of the Gospel, the distribution of religious tracts,
and the establishment of prayer meetings and Sunday schools, with
every other scriptural method for the accomplishment of this impor-
tant object. Income, 1876-7, £6,199. This amount represents but
a very small part of the sum expended by the denomination in Home
Evangelization, inasmuch as each of the 41 County Congregational
Unions and Associations in England, and of the 15 in Wales, has its
own local missionai*y organization, having the same objects in view.
The amount thus raised in 1877-8 was £22,903.
By the action of the Congregational Union of England and
Wales, in London, in May last, these several organizations have been
merged into one, viz. : —
The Congregational Church Aid Home Missionary Society,
and hence forth all Home Missionary operations will bo conducted
through its agency.
british congregational societies. ' 31
The Scottish Congregational Union,
In addition to the general purposes of such organizations, is the
Home Missionary Society of the body in Scotland, its objects being:
— First, To afford to Churches connected with it such pecuniary aid
as may be required, to enable them, to the best advatage, to main-
tain the ordinances of the Gospel among themselves, and to promote
its interest in their neighbourhood. Secondly, To employ approved
Preachers, in more limited or more extended itinerancies, throughout
the country at large ; and, Thii^dly, To encourage movements
designed to originate new Churches in the larger towns. Income
last year from ail sources, £1,501.
The Irish Evangelical Society.
This Society, originated in 1814, has for its object, " To promote
the preaching of the Gosjjel in Ireland, by assisting pastors of
Congregational Churches, by supporting missionaries, itinerant
preachers, and Scripture readers of the same denomination, and to
aid in the education of approved candidates for the Christian minis-
try intended to labour in that country."
The operations of the institution are carried on throughout the
four provinces of Ireland. The Society employs nineteen Agents —
sixteen being Ministers, and three Evangelists, Eeaders and Teachers,
occupying twenty-three stations, and ninety out-stations. Its income
for 1877-8 was £2,406.
The Colonial Missionary Society.
This Society was established in 1836, and its object is to promote
evangelical religion among British or other European settlers and
their descendants in the colonies of Great Britain, in accordance
with the doctrine and discipline of Independent or Congregational
churches.
The Forty-second Annual Meeting was held in Memorial Hall,
London, May 9th, 1878, James Spicer, Esq., J. P., in the chair.
The report was read by the Secretary, the Eev. W. S. H. Fielden.
The income for 1877-8 was £3,864.
Chapel Building Societies.
The London Congregational Chapel Building Society has assisted
in the erection of 122 chapels in London, towards which it has made
gi*ants, and free loans without interest, amounting to £152,181. It
has a practical sub-committee to examine plans, working drawings,
specifications and contracts, and offers the benefit of their large ex-
perience even where pecuniary aid is not required. Income for
1877 £9,261. Its loan fund amounts to £11,039.
The English Congregational Chapel Building Society, formed
under the sanction of the Congregational Union, has for its field of
operations England and Wales (excepting London and Lancashire),
the Channel Islands, and, by special contribution, Ireland and the
Colonies. It has assisted in erecting or improving 487 churches, to
the extend of over £136,000. It has a loan fund of nearly £50,000.
Income, 1877, £11,101.
32" BKITISH CONGEEGATIONAL SOCIETIES.
TLe Lancashire and Cheshire Congregational Chapel and School-
Building Society has assisted in the building of 35 chapels and 10
schools in the counties named, towards which it has contributed
£23,600, and proposes to erect 50 chapels within the next five years.
Income not given.
The Scottish Congregational Chapel Building Society has a capital
of £2,600. Income for 1877, £1,079.
The colony of Victoria has also its Chapel Building Society, with
a capital of £3,041. Its scheme is explained thus: — "To raise-
money by free subscriptions, collections, etc., wdich becomes the
capital of the Association, and is lent out for the building and re-
pairing of churches, Sunday schools and parsonages, or removing
debts upon them, on terms equivalent to ten annual repayments of £8
for £100, or £80 in ten years. Out of each annual repayment of £8,
the sum of £2 is added to the capital of the Association, and the
remaining £6 is traded with (if the expression may be allowed), by
which the remaining amount is increased to £100 at the end of ten
years. In this way £20 will be saved out of every £100 by the
borrowing Church ; £20, with interest thereon, will be added to the
capital of the Association ; the loan of £100 will be repaid at the
end of ten years, and all the working expenses of the Association
will be met. If it be asked how is the £6 to be traded with so as to
be increased to £100 in ten j-ears, it is done by paying £5 4s. as
subscinptions into one of the Melbourne General Building and Invest-
ment Societies. And if it be asked how are the working expenses to
be met, that is done with the 16s., the difterence between the £5 4s.
and the £6."
British and Colonial Congregational Colleges.
Name. Number of Number of ^
Students. Professors.
Western College, Plymouth 19 2 £1,405
Eotherham College 26 3 1,371
Cheshiint College 42 4 2,502
Airedale College, Bradford 20 3 2,500
Hackney College 20 3 2,049
Lancashire Independent College 52 3 4.229
Spring Hill, Birmingham 23 3 2,665
]Srew College, London 46 ,. 8 4,180
Theological College, Scotland 13 3 1,546
Memorial College, Brecon 42 3 1,787
Independent College, Bala 41 3 1,172
Carmarthen 39 2 973
Congregational Institute, Bristol 17 2 1,015
Congregational Institute, Nottingham 51 2 2,049
Congregational College, Yictoria, Melbourne. 8.. 4 694
Camden College, Sydney 5 2 539
Congregational College, B.N. America 16 3 ?4,300
american congregational societies. 33
American Congregational Theological Seminaries.
Professors and
Lecturers. Students.
Andover, Mass., Established 1808 11 68
Bangor, Main " 1817 5 48
ya]e,New Haven, Conn.. '' 1822 12 102
Hartford, Conn " 1834 9 30
Oberlin. 0 '■ 1835 11 35
Chicago, 111 " 1858 4 37
Pacific, Oakland, Cal " 1869 2 7
AMERICAlSr COKGREGATIOMAL SOCIETIES.
The American Board of Commissioners tor Foreign Missions.
This Society holds its Sixtj^'-ninth Annual Meeting at Hartford,
Conn., in October. We cannot therefore give its statistics for the
current year, but from its last Report we learn that it had 17 Mis-
sions, with 81 stations and 531 out-stations; 151 ordained Mis-
sionaries, 7 medical Missionaries, 5 male assistant Missionaries and
222 female Missionaries ; or a total of 378 sent out by the Society.
It had also 872 native pastors, preachers, teachers and helpers,
making a total of 1,250. 256 Churches had been organized, with a
membership of 13,435. The income lor the year 1877-78 was
about $475,000. Our Canadian Foreign Missionaries, now in Constan-
tinople, Turkey, Cthe Roy. C. H. Brooks, and wife), were sent out
under the auspices of this Board.
The American Home Missionary Society.
Was organized Ma}^ 10th, 1826. Like its kindred Society, the
A. B. C. Foreign Missions, it is unsectarian in constitution, but is
now the recognized Domestic Missionary Society of the Congrega-
tional Churches of the United States. Its income for last year was
$293,712. Number of Ministers of the Gospel in the service of the
Society, 996 in 32 States and Territories. The number of congrega-
tions and Missionar}' districts thus supplied with the preaching of
the Gospel was 2,196. Its receipts for the fifty-iwo years just com-
pleted amount to an aggregate of over $8,000,000. The report for
the past year shows 72 churches organized, 27 having become self-
sustaining; 32 new church edifices erected; 181 churches had en-
joyed revivals; 460 Missionaries report 5,394 hopeful conversions,
and 5,448 additions to the churches on profession of faith.
The American Missionary Association.
This Association, formed Sej^tember 3rd, 1846, finds it sphere of
op3rations among the Freedmen of the Southern States, the Indians,
and the Chinese of the Pacific Co^st. Since Emancipation, it has
34 AMERICAN CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETIES.
devoted its main efforts to preparing the Freedraen for their duties
as citizens and Christians in America, and as missionaries in Africa.
And as closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted
Chinese in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its
humane and Christian policy towards the Indians. It has also
missions among the liberated blacks in the West Indies; and a
mission in Africa. It has 8 chartered Universit es ; 18 graded or
Normal Schools, and other schools. Missionaries, Teachers and
Assistants in its service 252. Churches in the South, 59; among
the Indians, 2; and in foreign fields, 1; church members in the
South, 3,935; among the Indians, 39 ; and in foreign fields, 547;
total number of Sunday School Scholars, 7,980; schools in the
South, 27 ; among the Chinese, 13 ; among the Indians, 5 ; in foreign
fields, 8; total, 53; pupils in the South. 6,175; among the Chinese,
1,536; among the Indians, 153, and in foreign field, 505. There are
100,000 scholars in the South being taught hj former pupils of the
Association. Its income for last year was ^264,709.
Freedmen's Aid Society.
Object: — The Christian education of the African race in the
United States, Canada, the West Indies, and Africa. It co-operates
largely with the American Missionary iVssociation, in the training
of teachers and students for the ministry in Southern Universities.
The American Congregational Union.
Has for its leading object the promotion of the interests of the
Churches of the Denomination, " by devising and recommending to
the public plans of co-operating in building meeting houses and
parsonages," towards which it renders aid bj^ gift, or grant, or by
loan, with or without security. It also provides, or assists in pro-
viding, parochial or pastoral libraries, and collects, preserves and
publishes "authentic information concerning the history, condition
and continued progress of the Congregational Churches in all parts
of the country, with their affiliated institutions," &c.
It began its work in 1853, since which time it has received and
expended on its various schemes $850,000. It has aided during that
period in the erection of nearly 1,000 houses of worship, in 34 States
and Territories. Its receipts for last year were $31,000.
Congreqational Publishing Company.
This Societj', located in Boston, Mass., prints, publishes and
circulates books, tracts and periodicals adapted to explain and ad-
vance the distinctive doctrines and precepts of the Gospel, to illus-
trate a genuine Christian experience, to help forward enterprises of
Christian activity, and su])port the Congregational faith and policy,
as professed and defended by the Puritans of New England, and by
the Orthodox Congregational Churches of the United States. Its
income from sales and contributions, reported last year, was $71,193 ;
We have not been able to procure report for 1S77--8.
KECEIPTS OF BEITISH BENEVOLENT feCCIETIES. 35
RECEIPTS OF BRITISH BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES.
We extract from "Evangelical Christendom" for June, the followiug
summary of the receipts of various benevolent societies in Great Britain'for
the year'l877-8. To convert the sums into dollars multiply by five.
British AND Foreign Bible Society £212,303
Principal B'oreign Missionary Societies —
Church Missionary Society 223,038
Wesleyan Missionary Society 146,017
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 148,438
London Missionary Society 109,348
Baptist Missionary Society 50,068
Moravian Missions 16,185
South American Missionary Society 12,467
English Presbyterian Missions ' 13,018 718,579
Colonial, Jewish, and other Missions —
Primitive Methodist Missions 33,538
Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jewf?. 35,480
Colonial and Continental Church Society 38,849
United Methodist Free Churches' Missions 17,797
British Society for the Jews 7,030
Foreign Aid Society 2,193
Turkish Missions' Aid Society 3,400
Evangelical Continental Society 3,384
Colonial Missionary Society . . ' 3,864 146,039
Home Missions —
Additional Curates Society 72,632
Church Pastoral Aid Society 50,496
London City Mission » 51,958
Wesleyan Home Missions 35,515
Bishop of London's Fund 28,201
Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics 21,438
Curates' Augmentation Fund 12,500
Missions to Seamen 1 2,832
Incorporated Church Building Society 5,999
Church of England Scripture Readers' Association. 11,012
Arm}' Scripture Readers' Societj' 10,173
Wesleyan Metropolitan Chapel Building Fund 5,163
British and Foreign Sailors' Society 4,867
Protestant Reformation Society 4,727
British and Irish Baptist Home Missions 6,800
London Diocesan Home Mission 8,253
Home Missionary Society (Congregational) 6,199
Irish Evangelical Society 2,406
Thames Church Mission 2,349
Royal Naval Scripture Readers' Society 1,920
Midnight Meeting Movement 1,311 357,051
Religious Educational Societies —
British and Foreign School Society 20,142
Indian Female Normal School Society 12,334
Christian Vernacular Education Society for India.. 9,510
Wesleyan Education Committee. 8,910
Reformatory and Refuge Union 1 0,963
Ragged School Union 5,142
British Syrian School and Bible Missions 4,287
Sunday School Union 4,953
Church of England School-school Institute 3,005 79,246
36 STATISTICS OF CONGREGATIONAL CHUECHES.
Miscellaneous —
Religious Tract Society 148,557
Church Association 7,518
Religious Book Society , 5,565
Young Men's Christian Association 2,865
Monthly Tract Society 3,535
Christian Association for Young Women 2,464
Bible Translation Society 2,1 65
Lord's-day Observance Society 1,365 174,034
£1,687,252
STATISTICS OF CONGKEGATIONAL CHUKCHES.
CANADA.
Chui'ches, 120 ; Membership, 7,850 ; Ministers, 97.
{See Tables appended to the Minutes of the Congregational Unions of Ontario
and Quebec, and Nova Scotia and Neio Brunswick.)
NKWFOUNDLANn. — Churches, 4; Ministers, 3.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
{From the " Congregational Year Book," 1878.)
England.— Churches, 2,289; Ministers, 2,087; Evangelists, 175.
Wales. — Churches, 854 ; Ministers, 424; Evangelists, 301.
Scotland. — Churches, 107; Ministers, 122.
Evangelical Union. — Churches, 85; Ministers, 75,
Ireland. — Churches, 28 ; Ministers, 25,
Channel Islands. — Churches, 17; Ministers, 8.
Colonial and Foreign.
Australia. — Churches, 169 ; Ministers, 142.
New Zealand. — Churches, 20 ; Ministers, 15.
South Africa. — Churches, 25 ; Ministers, 25.
Jamaica. — Churches, 10; Ministers, 7.
British Guiana. — Churches, 12; Ministers, 9.
India. — Churches, 6 ; Ministers, 4.
China. — Churches, 2 ; Ministers, 2.
In Mission Fields. — Churches, about 300 ; Ministers, 145 ; Native
Ministers, 317.
UNITED STATES.
{From the " Congregational Quarterly" for January, 1878.)
1. Churches. — 3,564; Ministers, 3,406 ; Foreign Missionaries, 122.
Membership, 121,733 males, and 236,343 females; total, 365,595. The
additions during the previous year had been, by profession, 24,138; by letter,
10,973; total, 35,111; and the removals, 15,743. The Sabbath Schools con-
tained_^420,523 scholars.
CONGREGATIONAL UNIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS. 3T
Two thousand seven hundred and thirty-five Churches report benevolent
contributions to the amount of $1,117,808, and 1,503 churches report Home
expenditure, $2,276,164,
Grand total in countries above reported; Churches, 7,427; Ministers,,
6,974 ; Membership, about 750,000.
BKITISH AND COLONIAL CONGEEGATIONAL
UNIONS.
CoxGREGATiONAL Union OF ENGLAND AND Wales. — Chciinnav., 1878,
Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, B. A. ; Secretary, Rev. Alexan.er Hannay^,,
Congregational Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, E. C.
THE London Board of Congregational Ministers.
has a menbership of 239, besides whom there are 137 ministers " residing in
and around the cities of London and Westminster," rot members of the
Board, or a total of 376. There are 243 chapels in the London District.
Congregational Union of Scotland. — Treasurer, David McLaren, Esq. ,-
Redfurn, Murchistoun, Edinburgh ; Secretary, Rev. James Ross, Montrose
Annual Meeting in April. .
The Evangelical Union in Scotland. — President, Rev. Wm. Bathgate,
Kilmarnock, Glasgow ; Secretary, Rev. A. M. Wilson, Bathgate, Linlithgow-
shire.
Congregational Union of Ireland. — Chairman, Rev. A. M. Morrison,
Belfast; Secretary, Rev. R. Sewell, Londonderry. Annual Meeting in
September.
County Unions and Associations. — England, 41 ; Wales, 17; Scotland,
8; Ireland, 1; the Colonies,"10 ; Madagascar, 1 ; Total, 78.
COLONIAL CONGREGATIONAL UNIONS.
The Congregational Churches and Ministers in the several Colonies are
associated in Unions as follows : —
Congregational Union and Mission of Victoria. — Chairman, Rev. E.
Greenwood, Emerald Hill; Secretary, Rev. J. J. Halley, Williamstown.
Congregational Union of New South Wales. — Chairman, Rev. R. T.
Hills ; Secretaries, Randolph Nott, Esq., and Rev. G. G. Howden.
Congregational Union of Queensland. — Chairman, S. Fraser, Esq.,,
M.L.A.; iS'ecreter?/, Rev. E. Griffith, Brisbane. Annual Meeting in October.
Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia. —
Chairman, Rev. W. R. Fletcher, M.A. ; Secretary, Rev. F. W. Cox. Meets in
April and October.
Congregational Union of Western Australia. — Chairman, Rev. J.
Johnston ; Ireasurer, Mr. E. Birch.
Congregational Union and. Mission of Tasmania. — Chairman, Rev. B.
S. Bird; Secretary, Rev. J. Wilkes Simmons.
CONGREGATIO>fAL UnION AND HoME MiSSION FOR THE PROVINCE OP
Auckland, New Zealand. — Secretary, W. H, Lyon.
Congregational Union of Natal, South Africa.
D.
38 CONGEEC+AtiONAL UNtOI^S AND ASSOCIATIONS.
Congregational Union of South Africa. — Chairman, Rev. E. Solomon ;
SecretaTtes, Rev. J. C. Mackintosh and N. C. Goezar.
Congregational Union of Madagascar.
Congregational Union of Jamaica. — Chairman, Rev. T. H. Clark,
Porus ; Secretary, Rev. B. C. Rutland, Four Paths.
THE UNITED STATES.
ASSOCIATIONS AND CONFERENCES.
{From the " Congregational Quarterly," January, 1878.)
The National Council of the Congregational Churches of the
United States — Organized 1871, meets every third Year. — Rev. A. H. Quint,
U.D., Boston, Mass., Secretary. Next meeting October, 1880.
Alabama, The General Conference of the Congregational Churches
OF. No Report.
California General Association ; meets October 8th — Rev. J. H.
Warren, D.D., San Francisco, Registrar.
Colorado Conference ; meets in October. — Rev. D. Sheldon, Colorado
Springs, Secretary.
Connecticut General Association; meets in June. — Rev. W. H. Moore,
Hartford, Registrar.
Connecticut General Conference ; meets at New Britain, November
12th.— Rev. W. H. Moore, Hartford, Registrar.
Dauota Congregational Association ; meets at Bon Homme, October
]7tli. — Rev. Joseph Ward, Yankton, Clerk.
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi : Central South
Conference; meets Chattanooga, Ten., November 7th. — Rev. H. S. Bennet,
Nashville, Recording Secretary.
Illinois General Conference ; meets 4th Tuesday in May.— Rev. M.
K. Whittlesey, Jacksonville, Corresponding Secretary.
Indiana General Association ; meets in May. — Rev. N. A. Hyde,
Indianapolis, Secretanj.
Iowa General Association; meets 1st Wednesday after 4th Wednesday
of May.— Rev. J. G. Merrill, Davenport, Registrar.
Kansas General Association ; meets lat Wednesday in June. — Rev. J.
S. She, Topeka, Clerk.
Kentucky State Association; Rev. B. S. Hunting, Berea, Clerk.
Louisiana Southwestern Conference ; meets in January.
Maine General Conference; meets in June. — Rev. E. H. Byington,
Brunswick, Corresponding Secretary.
Massachusetts, General Association of the Congregational
Churches of; meets 3rd Tuesday of June.— Rev. A. H. Quint, D.D., New
Bedford, Secretary.
Michigan General Association; meets 3rd Tuesday in May. — Rev. P.
R. Hurd, Detroit, Secretary.
Minnesota General Congregational Conference ; meets in October. —
Rev. N. C. Chapin, Rochester, Corresponding Secretary.
Missouri General Conference; meets October 19th at Kansas City. —
Rev. L. Mitchell, Sedalia, Secretary.
CONGREGATIONAL PESIODICALS. 39
Nebraska Coxgregational Association ; meets at Fremont, October
23r(l. — Rev. H. Bross, Crete, Stated Clerk.
New Jersey General Association; meets at Vineland, October 8th. —
Rev. Gr. M. Boynton, Newark, Secretary.
New York General Association ; meets at Oswego, October 15th. —
Rev. James Deane, Westmoreland, Secretary.
Ohio Congregational Confersnce ; meets in May. — Rev. J. G. Fraser,
East Toledo, Registrar.
Oregon Congregational Association; meets .Srd Thursday in June. —
-Rev. Horace Lyman, Forest Grove, Registrar.
Pennsylvania ; no General, but two local Associations.
Rhode Island Congregational Conference; meets 2nd Tuesday in
■June. — Rev. T. Laurie, D.D., Providence, Stated Secretary.
Texas Congregational Association; meets in July. — Rev. B. C. Church,
Goliad, Stated Clerk.
Vermont General Convention; meets 2nd* Tuesday in June. — Rev. C.
H. Merrill, West Brattleboro', Registrar.
Wisconsin Presbyterian and Congregational Convention ; meets in
September. — Rev. E. J. Montague, Fort Atkinson, Stated Clerk.
SOCIETIES RECOMMENDED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. — Rev. N.
G. Clark, D.D., and E. K. Alden, D.D., Secretaries ; Treasurer, Langdon S.
Ward — all at the Congregational House, Boston. Woman's Board of
Missions, acting in connection with the American Board. Rooms 1 and 2,
Congregational House Boston. Coj-responding Secretaries. — Mrs. G. B.
Putnam and Miss Ellen Carruth. Boyne Secretary. — Miss Abbie B. Child.
Treasurer. — Mrs. Benj. E. Bates. Woman's Board or the Interior,
75 Madison Street, Chicago, III. Secretaries. — Mrs. E. W. Blatchford,
Mvs. J. B. Leake, Miss Mary E. Greene, Miss Sarah Pollock. Treasurer.—
Mrs. Francis Bradley. Woman's Board of the Pacific. — Secretary, Mrs.
S. P. Blakeslee, Oakland, Cal.
American Congregational Union. — Rev. W. B. Brown, D.D., 69 Bible
House, New York, Secretary.
American Home Missionary Society. — Rev. Drs. D. B. Coe, A. H.
Clapp, and H. M. Storrs, Bible House, New York. Secretaries.
American Missionary Association. — Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., 56 Reade
^Street, New York, Secretary.
Congregational Publishing Society. — Congregational House, Boston.
American College and Education Society. — Rev. I. N. Tarbox, 32
CJongregational House, Boston, Secretary.
Western Education Society. — Rev. E. F. Williams, Chicago, 111., ^eo-eto-?/.
CONGREGATIONAL PERIODICALS.
L— CANADIAN.
annual.
Name. Editor. Publisher.
Canadian Congregational ■) p^,^ t -.v^^ i Congregational Publish-
YearBook I Rev. J. Wood in| Cfo., Toronto
monthly.
Canadian Independent* Rev. J. Wood do
" Till .January, 1S79, when it is to be issued weekly.
40 CONGEEGATIONAL PEaiODICALS.
II.— BRITISH.
ANifUAL.
Congregational Year Book... Hodder & Stoughton
Lancashire Cong. Calendar.. .Rev. R. M. Davies Tubbs & Brook, Mancft-'r
Yorkshire Cong. Year Book. .Rev. J. B. Robertson.. .Simpkiu, Marshall & Co
QPARTERLY.
British Quarterly Review Rev. H. Allon, D.D.,.. .Hodder & Stoughton.
MONTHLY .
Evangelical Magazine Rev. R. H. Reynolds.. .Hodder & Stoughton.
Congregationalisl Rev. R. \V. Dale, D.D.. do
Homilist Rev. D Thomas, D.D. .Simpkin & Marshall.
Christian Family Rev. T. Stephenson Elliot Stock.
Missionary Chronicle Rev. Dr. Mullens J. Snow & Co.
Juvenile Missionary MagazineRev. R. Robinson J. Snow & Co.
Christian's Penny MagazineRev. F. S. Williams, ... J. Snow & Co.
Liberator Mr. H. S. Skeats .Houlston & Sons.
n i- 1 A 1 /Rev. Thos. Brisbane.) -r,,-,- . q, ,
Congregational Advance.. < n i i 'y Elliot Stock.
» <= (. Canibuslang. J
The Mother's Friend Miss Morgan Hodder «fe Stoughton.
x he Literary World Rev. T. Stephenson Clarke, Fleet Street.
The Christian World MagazineE. J. Worboise , do
The Sunday School Teacher. .Editorial Committee Sunday School Union.
The Child's Own Magazine.. .Mr. Wm. Groser do
Kind Words Mr. B. Clarke do
The Morning of Life Mr. W. H. Groser, B.S.C. do
The East London Congreg'list. Rev. E. L. Pearse R. Gladding.
Anti-Slavery Reporter Rev. A. Buzacott 27 New Broad Street.
The Temperance Worker & I r) u -nr <■ fp f Pitman & Band of
Band ot- Hope Conductor } ^^^^^ ^' Wagstaff | ^^^^ -^nion.
The Christian World Pulpit. .Mr. Jas. Clarke Clarke & Co., Fleet St.
Scottish Cong. Magazine Rev. J. Stark Elliot, Edinburgh.
Irish Cong. Magazine Rev. J. White Hodder & Stoughton.
WEEKLY.
Nonconformist E. Miall, Esq Wilcox, 18 Bouverie St.
Englisli Independent. ... . . ..In Commission Clarke & Co., Fleet St.
Chi'istian World James Clarke do
The Christian Union Rev. C. Kirkby 8 Salisbury Sq., Fleet St.
The Fountain Rev. Dr. Parker T. Smith, Paternoster R
N.B. --There are also published 9 Welsh, 5 French, 3 Italian, and one Spanish Periodicals, the
names of which maybe found in the English Congeegational Year Book, forlSTS-
III.— COLONIAL.
ANNUAL.
Victorian Year Book Rev. R. Connebee
MONTHLY.
Victorian In-iependent Rev. S. C. Kent, Melbourne, 32 Collins Street.
New South Wales Independ't.Rev. T. S. Forsaith
South Australian Independ't.Rev. J. B. Ferguson.. ..
IV.— AMERICAN.
QUARTERLY.
Bibliotheca Sacra Rev. E. A. Park, D.D. .W. F. Draper, Andover,.
New Englander Prof. Kinsley <t others. .New Haven. [Mass..
Congregational Quarterly C. Gushing A. Cong. Union, Boston.
CONGEEGATIONAL PEEIODICALS. 41
MONTHLY.
Missionary Herald A. B. C. F. M Boston.
American Missionary Am. Miss. Association.. New York.
Home Missionary Home Miss. Society. . .. New York.
WEEKLY.
Oongregationalist Rev. H. M. Dexter, D.D . | ^^'- ^cSton^"^ ^ ^^"
A J v> WT WT ^y^^^^ n n / C. H. Howard & Co.,
Advance Kev.W.VV. ratton, U.U. < PI ' o-
Independent H. C. Bowen H. C. Bowen, New Y''ork
Christian Mirror Portland, Me. ►
Vermont Cljronicle
Christian Union _. Rev.H.W. Beecher New Y^ork
Pacific Rev. S. P. Blakeslee. . .Oakland, San Francisco.
CONGREGATIONAL UNION LECTURES.
THE NEW SERIES.
The Superhuman Origin of the Bible inferred from itself. B}'' Professor
Henry Rogers, 1873.
John the Baptist; a contribution to Christian Evidences. By H. R.
Reynolds, D.D., 187-i.
The Atonement. By Rev. R. W. Dale, M.A., D.D., 1875.
Priesthood in the light of the New Testament. By Enoch Mellor, D.D., 1876.
The Basis of Faith. By Eustace R. Condor, M.A., 1877.
The Rev. J. Guiness Rogers, B.A., is the Lecturer for 1878; and the
Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, B.A., for 1879.
All the above volumes are published by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton^
London, and may be procured through tlie Congregational Book Room.
MINUTES
OF THE
TWEKTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING,
Congregational Union
— OP —
Meld in London , Out., June 5th to June lOth, 1878, ivith Statistical Tables,
APPOINTMENTS FOR 1878-9.
Chairman. — The Eevd. JRobert K. Black, Granby, Que.
Secret A.RY-TREASURER. — The Eevd. Prof. Fenwick, Montreal, Que.
Statistical Secretary. — The Eevd. W. H. Wari-iner, Yorkville,Ont.
■Minute Secretaries — The Eevds. J. B. Silcox and C. Duff.
COMMITTEE :
Eevd. S. N. Jackson, M,D. Messrs. G-, S. Fenwick, Kingston.
W. M. Peacock.
John Wood.
Eobert Mackay.
W. H. Allworth.
Dr. Wilkes.
J. A. E. Dickson.
Dr. Cornish.
D. Macallum.
Thos. Eobertson, Montreal.
Geo. Eobertson, Kingston.
J. H. McFarlane, Kingston.
B. W. Eobertson, Kingston.
F. B. Osborne, Kingston.
G. Pirn, Toronto.
J. Simmonds.
PLACE AND TIME OF MEETING :
Kingston, Congregational Church, Wellington Street, June
4th, 1879.
ANNUAL SERMON, WEDNESDAY EVENING:
Eevd. W. H. Allworth ; alternate, Eevd. E. W. Wallace, M.A.
SABBATH MORNING SERMON:
Eevd. Wm. Hay ; alternate, Eevd. E. D. Silcox.
ESSAYS APPOINTED:
1. "The relation of Children to the Church." — Eevd. E. Hay.
2. " The present aspect of Sabbath School work and its,
demands." — Eevd. J. B. Silcox.
3. " In what way can our Union meetings be made a more'
vital or effective means of intellectual and spiritual quickening." —
Eevd. W. Manchee.
4. " What are the essential elements of Unity in donominationaL
fellowship and action ?"— Eevd. H. Wilkes, D.D., LL.D.
ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING:
1. " Congregationalism in relation to the Free Thought of the-
Age." — Eevd. J. F. Stevenson, LL.B.
2. " Congregationalism as a Spiritual Power." — Eevd. Josephi
Griffith.
3. " Congregationalism as an Aggressive Power." — George"
Hague, Esq.
BE SOLUTIONS AND DECLARATION OF FAITH, 43
KESOLUTIONS AND DECLARATION OF FAITH.
Adopted by the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, at the
Annual Meetings, held in Guelph, Ont., June, 1877, and London, June, 1878.
In reference to the Doctrinal Statement, it should be distinctly understood
that it has been adopted by the Union, neither as a creed to be subscribed, nor
as a scientific document, by which the belief of the churches is minutely
declared.
It has been intentionally drawn up in simple language, so that the several
members of our Churches may refer to it, as a brief statement of what is
generally believed by ihose connected with the Congregational Denomination
in Canada. Its cordial and unanimous adoption gave striking and practical
illustration of the unity of opinion on the cardinal doctrines of the Christian
Faith, which exists so largely in the body.
" Forasmuch as our denominational attitude toward modern religious
thought may, from the freedom of our ecclesiastical polity, be unintentionally
misapprehended, we hereby affirm our continued adhesion to the historical
principles of our body, and declare our belief: —
" 1. That human formulations of dogma, whether in the form of written
creeds or articles of religion, are neitiier conducive to unity of faith nor pre-
ventive of error, and that the Holy Scriptitres alone are the true .standard of
religious belief.
" 2. That as the Bible is the inspired revelation of the Divine mind and
will, to the diligent and prayerful student light may be expected to break
from its pages. Nevertheless, from its devout study for ages by the best aad
wisest men, such light, while it may secure a richer development o± its fundar
mental truths, will certainly never mar nor displace them.
" 3. That as a denomination we are unwilling to accept the theology of
any man or class of men as authoritative : nevertheless on all material points
we are still in general accord with the cardinal doctrines held by the fathers-
of Congregationalism, holding such views, not because they held them, but
because, like them, we find them in the Word of God.
" 4. That, whilst we claim, we concede the free exercise of private judg-
ment on all mattei's coming within the legitimate range of reason ; hence every
brother must be held responsible for his own distinctive opinions without com-
promising the opinions of his brethren. Nevertheless we rejoice in the subs-
tantial doctrinal harmony which exists amongst us.
DOCTRINAL STATEMENT.
The Congregational Churches of Canada hold —
1. That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired
records of God's mind and will.
2. That there is one God, infinite in His nature and perfections, the Creator
and Governor of the universe.
3. That the Father is divine, that the Son is divine, and that the Holy
Spirit is divine; divine in the sense that They are one God.
4. That the Son, as the Divine Word, was in the beginning with God and
was God, but that to redeem us frum sin and death, in the fulness of the times.
He took upon Him our very nature, and jn our nature suft'ered even unto death.
44: RESOLUTIONS AND DECLAKATION OF FAITH.
5. That by the Holy Spirit the soul is born again and sanctified.
6. That man was originally created in the divine image, but through dis-
obedience to the command of God, fell from his first estate and involved him-
self in ruin,
7. That salvation has been secured through the absolute rigliteousness
and atoning death of the Lord Jesus; that through faith in Him alone can we
be saved, and that a true faith will ever be followed by holiness of life.
8. That the Lord Jesus will come again to judge the quick and dead ; that
at the last day there will be a general resurrection ; that after the judgment
those who are approved of Christ shall enter on a life of everlasting blessed-
ness, but that those who are condemned shall receive the due wages of sin,
everlasting punishment.
9. That there is one holy Catholic Church, which comprehends all, in all
climes and ages, who truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
10. That each local Church should be constituted and governed by the
revealed will of the Divine Head, our Lord Jesus Christ.
IL That each local Church should be composed exclusively of those who
give credible evidence of their having become " new creatures in Christ
Jesus "; that it should be complete in itself; independent of all ecclesiastic-
al authority ; that it should exercise the right of receiving its own members,
of maintaining its own discipline, of appointing its own officers, in a word, of
conducting its own affairs in harmony with the principles of the New
Testament.
12. That towards sister Churches, the attitude of the local Church should
be that of a co-equal, with the free exercise of Christian sympathy, mutual
co-operation, and, if needful, of respectful remonstrance, yet without authorit-
ative interference or control.
13. That each local Church should have its own Bishop, or Bishops, and
its Deacons. The office of the Bishop should include the preaching of the
Word, and the spiritual oversight and rule of the Church — the Bishop ruling,
not as a lord over God's heritage, but as the servant of Christ. The work of
the Deacons should primarily be the care of the poor of the Church ; but they
may be a Board of Consultation for the Bishop, and when desirable an
Executive for the temporalities of the Church.
14. That the Lord's Supper shoitld be administered as often, and as pre-
scribed by the Church.
15. That Baptism should be administered to infants, and to adults not
previously baptized, on the profession of their faith ; in both cases, by the
application of water to the subject.
16. That as the Congregational Union is neither a Church nor a Church
Court, connection with it, however, in many respects highly desirable, is
nevertheless purely voluntary, and should b? sought Tor mutual benefit and
for the promotion of the general interests of the denomination ; it being
clearly and distinctly understood that such connection is neither requisite to
the completeness of a- Church, nor for co-operation in denominational work.
CONSTITUTION. 4:5
OOI^STITUTIOI^r
OF THE
;.irngre0ati0H£iI Wnwn of Ontario anb gittbsf.
I. That the name of this Association be " The Congregational Union
OF Ontario and Quebec."
II. That it shall consist of Congregational or Independent Churches, and
of Ministers of the same Church Order, who are either in the pastoral office
or (being members of Congregational Churches) are engaged in evangelistic or
-educational service, approved and received at a general meeting.
IIL That this Union is founded on a full recognition of the distinctive
principle of Congregational Churches, namely, the Scriptural right ©f every
separate Church to maintain perfect independence in its government and
administration, and therefore, that the Union shall not assume legislative or
•administrative authority, or in any case become a court of appeal.
IV. That the following are the objects contemplated in its formation : — 1.
To promote evangelical religion in connection with the Congregational denomi-
nation. 2. To cultivate brotherly affection and co-operation in everything
relating to the interests of the associated Churches. 3. To establish fraternal
-correspondence with similar bodies elsewhere. 4. To address an annual or
occasional letter to the associated Churches, accompanied with such informa-
tion as maj^ be deemed necessar3\ 5. To obtain accurate statistical informa-
tion relative to the Congregational Churches throughout the British American
Provinces. 6. To hold consultation on questions of interest connected with
the cause of Christ in general.
V. To promote the accomplishment of these objects, and the general
interests of the Union, an annual meeting of its members shall be held, each
■of the associated Churches being represented by two lay delegates ; the meet-
ings to be held at such time and place as may be appointed at each annual
"meeting.
VI. That the officers of the Union be a Chairman, Secretary-Treasurer,
■Statistical Secretary, Minute Secretary, and Committee, all to be chosen
annually from its members, who shall execute the instructions of the Union,
and prepare a docket of business for the annual meeting.
VII. That alterations may be made in this Constitution by any annual
Tneetii!g, provided that notice of such alterations has been given at the meet-
ing next preceding.
STANDING BULES.
1. Applications for admission to the Union, whether by Churches, or
Ministers, shall be made in writing ; and after having been read to the Union,
shall be referred to a Standing Committee on Membership. Churches so
applying shall present the written recommendation of the Union. Ministers
bearing regular letters of dismissal from a kindred Congregational organiza-
tion, and those who furnish evidence of having completed a course of study in
the Congregational College of B. N. A., and having been ordained to the min-
Jstry, may be received at once on these grounds. Other ministers shall be
appointment of Standing Committees on Business,
and Finance, on nomination by the Committee of I
46 CONSTITUTION.
required to bring proof of (1) their membership in a Congregational Cliurch ;-
(2) their ordination to the ministry ; (3) if they have come from any other^
denomination, their good standing therein ; and they shall satisfy the Mem-
bership Committee in relation to their literary acquirements, and their doc-
trinal and ecclesiastical views ; (4) should the Membership Committee be-
satisfied on these points, and recommend the applicant for membership, the-
recommendation shall be filed with the Secretary, and the application and
recommendation shall then lie over until the next annual meeting, when a
two-thirds vote of the members present shall be requisite for admission into
membership.
2. The Union shall meet annually on the Wednesday after the first
Sabbath in June, at 7.30 p.m., when the annual sermon will be delivered.
3. The Union shall then be organized under the presidency of the retir-
ing Chairman, or, failing him, the pastor in the place of meeting, by the elec-
tion of Minute Secretaries and Reporters, the calling of the Roll, and the
Membership, Nominationg-
the Union.
4. On Thursday morning, after the devotional exercises, the retiring:
Chairman's address shall be delivered, and the new Chairman shall be elected^,
after nomination by the Committee of the Union, or by any member of the;
Union.
5. After the election of a new Chairman, the Committee of the Unionr
shall present their annual report.
6. The meetings shall be daily opened and closed with prayer; the morn-
ing devotional exercises to extend to an hour.
7. No motion shall be discussed unless seconded ; no member shall speak
twice to the same motion without permission from the Chair ; and every
m«tion shall be presented in writing by the mover, if required by the Chairv.
8. The roll shall be called, and the minutes of the preceding day read aft.
the opening of each day's session, and the minutes of the last day at the close-
of the session.
9. The Church in whose locality the annual meeting shall be held, shall
be requested to celebrate the Lord's Supper in connection vrith such meetings
10. On the Monday evening during the sittings of the Union, a public^
meeting of the Union shall be held.
11. Applications shall be made by the Statistical Secretary, one moiiiftb. aft.
least before the annual meeting, for statistics of the several Churches, and; a^
brief narrative of the state of religion among them, that he may prepare a conr-
densed narrative of the whole for the annual meetings, and for publication, ifc
so ordered.
12. A collection for the funds of the Union shall be made annually irb
each Church, on or near the Lord's day prior to the meeting. From this
source, in addition to the other expenses of the Union, the travelhng fares, by
the cheapest route, of the ministerial members of the Union, and of one dele-
gate from each Church contributing for each year, shall be paid in full, if pos--
sible, and of both delegates as soon as the funds suffice ; on the understanding,-
that such payment shall not be made until after the final adjournment, except,
with the leave of the Union.
13. The delegates from the Union to corresponding bodies, who may fail
to fulfil their appointment by personal attendance, shall address these bodies,
by letter, communicating in substance such information and sentiments as
they WQuld furnigh if present at their annual convocations.
CONSTITUTION. 47
EESOLUTIONS IN EEFERENCE TO COUNCILS,
Passed at the Annual Meeting, Montreal, June, 1876.
1. That previous to the formation of a new Church of our order, a council
of pastors and delegates of sister Churches should be called by the parties
desiring to be so formed into such a Church, and that statements and docu-
ments relating to the proposed organization should be presented to the Council
thus formed, and its advice in the matter sought.
2. That in the ordination, recognition or installation of pastors, and in
the setting apart of evangelists in or among our Churches, the Church over
whom the pastor is to be placed, or of which the evangelist is a member,
should call a Council, before whom should belaid the call of the Church, and
the credentials of the pastor elect, or the evangelist, as the case may be, and
the advice of the Council sought in relation thereto.
3. That a Council consists of the representatives of Churches, not of
individuals, and it is expedient that each Church consulted should be repre-
sented by its pastor, and a delegate, and should embrace, though not exclusive
ly, the sister Congregational Churches contiguous to the Church or people seek-
ing advice.
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49
LIST OF CHURCHES CONNECTED WITH THE UNION.
Albion, Ont.
Alton, Ont.
Athol, Ont.
Belleville, Ont.
Bownianville, Ont.
Brantford, Ont.
BrantfordjEniman'l ,Ont,
Brigham, Que.
Brockville, Ont.
Burford, Ont.
Caledon South, Ont.
Cobourg, Ont.
Coldspi-ings, Ont.
Covvansville, Que.
Danville, Que.
Douglas, Ont.
Durham, Que.
Eaton, Que.
Eiora, Ont.
Embro, Ont.
Erin, Nortli, Ont.
Fergus, Ont.
Forest, Ont.
Franklin, Que.
Garafraxa, 1st, Ont.
Garafraxa, North, Ont.
Georgetown, Ont.
Granby, Que.
Guelph, Ont.
Gnelph, Zion, Ont.
Hamilton, Ont.
Hawkesbury, Ont.
Howick, Ont.
Inverness, Que.
Kelvin, Ont.
Kincardine, Ont.
Kingston, Ont.
Lanark, Ont.
Listowel, Ont.
London, Ont.
Manilla, Ont.
Markham, Ont.
Martintown, Ont.
Melbourne, Que.
Middleville & Rosetta, O
Montreal, Calvary, Que.
Montreal, Eastern, Que.
Montreal, Emmanuel, Q.
Montreal, Zion, Que.
New Durham, Ont.
Newmarket, Ont.
Oro, 1st Church, Ont.
Ottawa, Ont.
Owen Sound, Ont.
Paris, Ont.
Pine Grove, Ont.
Quebec, Que.
Kugby, Ont.
Sarnia, Ont.
Scotland, Ont.
Sherbrooke, Que..
Simcoe, Ont.
Southwold, Ont.
Speedside, Ont.
St. Andrews, Que.
St. Catharines, Ont.
Stanstead, South, Quev
Stouffville, Ont.
Stratford, Ont.
Thistletown, Ont.
Tilbury, Ont.
Toronto, Bond St., Ont.
Toronto, Northern, Ont,
Toronto, Western, Ont.
Toronto, Zion, Ont.
Turnbury, Ont.
Vankleek Hill, Ont.
Vespra, Ont.
Warwick, Ont.
Watford, Ont.
Whitby, Ont.
Wiarton, Ont.
Yorkville, Ont.
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MINISTEEIAL MEMBEES OF THE UNION.
LIST OF MINISTERIAL MEMBERS OF THE UNION, WITH THEIR
POST-OFFICE ADDRESSES.
Adams, L. P., Fitch Baj^, Que.
Allworth, W. H., Paris, Ont.
Allworth, John, M.A., Utica, Mich.
Baker, Thomas, Hamilton, Ont.
Black, R, K., Gran by. Que.
Black, J. R., B .A., St. Catharines, Ont.
Brown, John, Lanark, Ont.
Brown, Robert, Middleville, Ont.
Burgess, Wm., Valetta, Ont.
Bulman, R., Markham, Ont.
Campbell, John, Arkwright, Ont.
Claris, W. H. A., Sarnia, Ont.
Colwell, 0. T.
Colwell, H. J., Alton, Ont.
Cornish, Geo., LL.D.. Montreal, Que.
Cossar, A. 0., Belleville, Ont.
Day, B. W., Cowansville, Que.
Denny, Hiram, Alton, Ont.
Dickson, J. A. R., Toronto, Ont,
Duff, Archibald, Sherbrooke, Que.
Duff, Charles, M.A., Speedside, Ont.
Durrant, John, Stratford, Ont.
Fen wick, K. M., Montreal, Que.
Foster, J. L., Montreal, Que.
Eraser, John, West Derb}^, Vt.
Gibbs, S. T., Toronto, Ont.
Gray, M. S., Clifford, Ont.
Griffith, Jos., Garafraxa, Ont.
Hay, James, Georgia, Vt.
Hay, Robert, Forest, Ont.
Hav, William, Scotland, Ont.
Hindley, J.I.,M.A.,Owen SoundyOn-t
Howell, James, Guelph, Ont.
Howie, James, Guelpli, Ont.
Hughes, Henry, Stratford, Ont.
Hunter, H. D., Newmarket, Ont.
Ireland, E. Pine Grove, Ont.
Jackson, S. N., M.D., Kingston, Ont.
Lowry, Martin, Tyrone, Ont.
Macallum, D., Athol, Ont.
McColl, E. C. W , Unionville, Ont.
Mackay, Robert, Kingston, Ont.
Malcolm, J. F., Whitby, Ont.
Manchee, Wm., Guelph, Ont.
McGill, A., M.A., Rvckmau's Corners,
Ont.
McKillican, John, Danville, Que.
Mcintosh, Wm., Melbourne, Que.
Peacock, W. M., Kingston, Ont.
Pedley, H., B.A., Cobourg, Ont.
Powis, H. D., Toronto, Ont.
Purkis, G., Waterville, Que.
Reikie, Thos. M., Yorkville, Ont.
Robinson, Robert, Wiarton, Ont.
Rose, Edwin, Economy, N.S.
Salmon, John, B.A., Embio, Ont.
Sanderson, J. G , Edgar, Ont.
Silcox, E. D., StouffVille, Ont.
Silcox, J. B., Toronto, Ont.
Smith, W. W., Eaton, Que.
Snider, S., Coral, Mich.
Stevenson, J. F., LL.B., Montreal, Que.
Unsworth, Joseph, Georgetown, Ont.
Vancamp, A., Brantford, Ont.
Wallace, R. W., B.A., London, Ont.
Warriner, W. H., B.A., Yorkville,Ont.
Watson, C. P., Sheldon, Vt.
Wilkes, H., D.D., LLD., Montreal,
Que.
Willett, Geo., Hawkesbury, Ont.
Williams, W., Montreal, Que.
Wood, John, Ottawa, Ont.
MINISTEES AND DELEGATES PRESENT.
51
LIST OF MINESTERS AND DELEGATES PRESENT DURING THE
.-SITTINGS OF THE UNION, JUNE, 1878.
Allworth, W. H.
Allworth. John, M.A.
Black, R K.
Black, J. R., B.A.
Brown, John
Brown, Robert
Burgess, Wm.
Claris, W. H. A.
Colwell, H. J.
Cornish, Geo., LLJ).
Day, B. W.
Dickson, J. A. R.
Duff, Chas., M.A.
Fen wick, Prof. K.-M.
Foster, J. L.
Ministers.
Gibbs, S. T.
Griffith , Joseph
Hay, Wm,
Haj', Robert
Hindley, J. I., M.A.
Howie, James
Hughes, H.
Hunter, H. D.
Ireland, E.
Jackson, S. N., M.D.
Macallum, D.
Mackay, Robert
Malcolm, J. F.
Manchee, Wm.
McColl, E. C. W., M.A.
Delegates,
Mcintosh, Wm.
Peacock, Wm. M.
Pedley, Hugh, B.A.
Reikie, T. M.
Salmon, J., B.A.
Sanderson, J. G.
Silcox, E. D.
Sdcox, J. B.
Unsworth, Joseph
Vancamp, A.
Wallace, R. W., M.A.
Warriner, W. H., B.A.
Wilkes, H., D.D., LL.D.
Williams, Wm.
Wood, John
Alton, J. J. McLellan.
Bowmanville, H. O'Hara.
Brantford, Emman'L, ;W. E. Welding
and G. E. Adams.
Coldsprings, J. Rosevear.
Douglas, il. Blyth and A. Lightbody.
Embro, J. Duncan.
Forest, A. Rawlings.
Garafraxa, A. Gerrie.
Georgetown, R. A. Reid.
Guelph, S. Greey and R. Thom]3Son.
Hamilton, D. Atchison and T. Bale,
flowick, J. Bowes.
Indian Lands, T. Munroe.
Kingston, G. Fenwick and T, Savage.
.Lanark, Robt. Robertson, jr.
Listowel, A. F. McGregor, Geo. Climie.
London, H. Matthewson, H. Tozeland.
•Manilla, H. A. Mclntyre.
Montreal, Eastern, Wm. Ewing.
Montreal, Emmanuel, W. Reid, P. H.
Burton.
■'Newmarket, Thos. Smith.
Oro, P. Cavanagh.
Ottawa, T. A. Mingard.
Owen Sound, J. Cruikshank, C. R.
Wilkes.
Paris, T. Walker, M. Ballard.
Quebec, W. C. Young.
Sarnia, E. J. Brown, W. Edgar.
Scotland, C. Pedley.
Southwold, F. Warren, A. Horton.
Speedside, G. P. Armstrong.
St. Catharines, R. Robertson, sen.
StouftVille, R. J. Daley, C. D. Merton.
Stratford, John Welsh.
Toronto, Northern, J. C. Copp, H. J.
Clark.
Toronto, Western, C. Brazier, G. Chats-
worth .
Toronto, Zion, G. Pirn.
Turnberry, D. Gemmili, W. Aikins.
Warwick, J. D. Eccles.
Watford, W. E. Sillence.
Wiarton, F. Wrigley.
Yorkville, G. Scott, T. Elgar.
52 MINUTES OF THE UNION.
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING
OP THE
CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC,
HELD IN LONDON, ONT., JUNE 5tH TO IOtH, 1878.
The Union met in the Congregational Church, London, Ont.;^
June 5th, 1878, at 7.30 p.m.
The Revd. W. H. Alhvorth led the devotional exercises ; the
jjastor of the Church, the Eevd. R. W. Wallace, M.A., delivered a.n
address of welcome; the Revd. J. A. R. Dickson then delivered the
retiring Chairman's address; after which, the Secretary of the
Union, on behalf of the Committee, recommended : —
That the hours of meeting be from 9 to 12 a.m., and- from 2 to
5 p.m.
That the Revds. J. B. Silcos and C. Duff be appointed Minute
Secretaries.
On motion the recommendation was adopted, and the Union
adjourned until 8 o'clock on Thursday morning.
► Thursday Morning, June 6th.
Devotional Exercises from 9 to 10 o'clock, led by Revd. John
Salmon, E.A.
Roll called.
On motion : Resolved^ — That instead of calling the Roll every
morning, it shall be suspended until Monday morning ; but that
those whose names have not been recorded be requested to report
them to the Minute Secretaries, together Avith the names of the
Churches to which they belong.
The Union Committee thi'ough its Secretary recommended the
following nomination of Standing Committees : —
1. Business Committee. — Revd. W. H. Allworth, Chairman ;,
Revds. S. N. Jackson, J. Salmon, W. Williams, R. Brown, R. Mac-
kay, W. H. A. Claris ; Messrs. E. Eckardt, G-. Hart, C. Pirn, G. S.
Climie. — Carried.
2. Nomination Committee. — Revd. AY. Manchee, Chairman ;
Revds. J. G, Sanderson, A. Vancamp, John Brown, R. Hay, E. D.
Silcox, J. R. Black, B. W. Day, J. Unsworth ; Messrs. E. J. Brown,.
R. Robertson, sen., J. D. Eccles, George Scott. — Carried.
MINUTES OF THE UNION. 58
3. Membership Committee. — Eevd. D. Macallum, Chairman;
Eevds. Dr. Cornish, W. Hay, C. Duff, S. T. Gibbs, T. M. Eeikie ;
Messrs. E. Y. Blyth, W. E. Welding, T. Bell, E. Thompson, Thos.
Elgar. — Carried.
4. Finance Committee. — Mr. P. H. Burton, Chairman ; Messrs.
W. Eeid, W. Edgar, J. Cowan, A. Taylor, G. S. Fcnwick, E. Eobert-
son, jr. — Carried.
The Committee of the Union nominated the Eevd. E. K. Black
as Chairman. On motion, the nomination was unanimously adopted.
Applications for membership in the Union were read by the
Secretary from the following Ministers, and the applications were
referred to the Membei'&hip Committee : Eevds. A. 0, Cossar,
Belleville ; W. H. VVarriner, B.A., Yorkville ; W. J. Cuthbertson,
Frome ; H. D. Hunter, Newmarket ; J. L. Foster, Montreal.
Also, an application from Eevd. E. Barker, now of Milton, N.S.,
for letter of transference to the Union of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick.
A communication was read from Bond Street Congregational
Church, proposing to withdraw from the Union. On motion,
referred to the Membership Committee.
Resolved, — That all proposals for Honorary Membership be
made through the Membership Committee.
The following Eeport of the Union was read by the Secretary.
On motion, it was received and adopted : —
. In submitting their Annual Eeport, your Committee beg to
explain that Bond Street Church having formally withdrawn from
the Union, in the absence of an invitation from any of the other
city Churches, it was felt to be inexpedient to hold our annual meet-
ing in Toronto. Falling back on the invitation of the London
Church, presented in June, 1877, the Secretary corresponded with
this Church to ascertain if it still adhered to its former invitation.
Having received a cordial answer in the affirmative, the several
members of the Union Committee were consulted by letter, and,
by a large majority, the invitation of the London Church was ac-
cepted. This action, we trust, will meet with your approval.
Since we last met, we have been admonished by God's provi-
dence of the need of earnestness and fidelity in our work. Three of
of our brethren, highly esteemed and loved, have finished their
course. Our venerable father, the Eevd. A. J. Parker, and our re-
sjjected brother, the Eevd. E. J. Sherrill, whose long and faithful
services, the first, as pastor of the Danville Church, the second as
pastor of the Church at Eaton — whose deep interest in all that con-
cerned the welfare of the body gave them for many years prominent
places on our roll — and the Eevd. H. Sanders, of Hamilton, who,
although a much shorter period amongst us, was scarcely less loved
or respected, have been removed from their earthly labour to their
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64 MINUTES OF THE UNION.
heavenly reward. Nor would we, in this connection, omiL another
well-known name, that of the Eevd. Wm. Clark. Although for a
short time withdrawn from the Union, it would be ungenerous to
forget the friendship and service of past years — years of earnest toil,
of indefatigable and faithful labour. The Union will doubtless take
suitable notice of these fellow labourers who have thus been taken
from us, and convey to their families an expi-ession of their Christian
sympathy.
The past year has been one of considerable change in the pas-
toral relation. A goodly number of Churches have been supplied
with pastors, four of whom have come from our College.
Your Committee would recommend :
1. That the following addition be made to the first Standing
Uule, to take effect on the adoption of this Eeport. After the words
" ecclesiastical views " let the following clause be added : " 4. Should
the Membership Committee be satisfied on these points, and recom-
mend the applicant for membership — the application shall be filed by
the Seci'etary, and the application and the recommendation shall then
lie over until the next annual meeting — when a two-thirds vote of
the members present shall be requisite for admission into the Union."
2. That the draft of regulations prepared by your Committee
for the guidance of the Finance Committee be submitted to a sub-
Committee, to be nominated by the Chairman of the Union, said
sub-Committee to report thereon as early this Session as possible.
3. That a draft of Church Principles, to be added, if approved, to
the Doctrinal Statement adopted by the Union in June last, which
your Committee have prepared, be placed in the hands of a Com-
mittee, consisting of the Secretary, Dr. Wilkes, and the Kevd. W. H.
Allworth, said Committee to report this Session.
4. Your Committee further suggest, that the Committee having
charge of " the draft of Eegulations " be asked to consider the pro-
priety of reverting to our former practice of having an annual
sermon, to be delivered at the commencement of the Session, on
Wednesday evening, instead of the retiring Chairman's address ; and
that said address be delivered immediately before the election of the
new Chairman, on Thursday morning.
We need only, in conclusion, remind you of the right which the
Union asserts of freedom in discussion, and of the will of the Master,
that all discussion should be under the regulations of the principles
of the New Testament, and in harmony Avith His own spirit — man-
ly, yet gentle ; brave, yet unselfish.
The Statistical Summary was then read.
Resolved, — That a Committee be nominated by the Chaii* to con-
sider the advisability of changing the form of the Statistical Blanks.
■Phe Chairman nominated Dr. Coi'nish and Prof. Fenwick.
minutes of the "union. 55
Thursday, 2 o'clock, p.m.
The Membership Committee reported, recommending : 1. Thnt
the Revds. A. Hastings Ross, Port Huron, U.S. ; Thos. Hall, New-
foundland; E. C. W". McOoll, Markham; E. Burgess, Tilbury, and
the Students of the Congregational College present, be invited to sit
as honorary members. 2. That the Eevds. A. O. Cossar, W. H.
Warriner be received into the Union. 3. That a letter of dismission
bo granted to the Eevd. E. Barker by this Union, to that of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick. — Adopted.
The Secretary-Treasurer read his Financial Statement. On
motion, it was referred to the Finance Committee.
Mr. Thomas Elgar gave notice of motion respecting the Chair-
man's Address.
Nomination Committee reported the following speakers for the
evening: Kevds. T. Hall, H. i). Hunter, Wm. Mcintosh; Messrs. P.
H, Burton and Wm. Edgar. — Adopted.
The Union rose to give way to the annual meeting of the C. C.
Missionary Society.
Friday Morning, June 7th.
Devotional Exercises, conducted by th© Eevd. J. L. Foster.
Minutes read and confirmed.
Business Committee reported order of business. — Adopted.
The Membership Committee reported, recommending :
1. That the Revds. Hugh Pedley and J. L. Foster bo received
into the Union.
2. That the Kincardine Church be also received into the Union
The report was adopted.
The Nomination Committee reported, recommending :
1. That the draft of regulations submitted by the Union Com-
mittee be adopted.
2. That the speakers for the social meeting this evening be
Eevds. J. B. Silcox, J. E. Black, and Mr. Charles Pedley.
3. That the speakers for the Annual Meeting of the Union, on
Monday evening, be the Eevds. Prof K. M. Fenwick, Thomas Hall,
and S. N. Jackson.
On motion the report was adopted.
The Eevd. S. N. Jackson, on behalf of the first Kingston Church,
invited the Union to meet with them next year. Eeferred to Nomi-
nation Committee.
The Membership Committee reported, recommending that the
resignation of the Bond Street Church, Toronto, be laid on the table,
and that a Committee be appointed by the Union to confer with the
Church in the meantime, with instructions to report thereon to this
66 MINUTES OF THE UNION.
body as soon as possible; inasmuch as it is due to a Church which
has held the position in the body which this Church has done, for so
long a time, to make all reasonable efforts to retain it in the Union.
On motion — Carried.
The Union adjourned to allow the Corj^oration of the Congre-
gational College of B. N. A. to meet.
Friday, 2 o'clock.
An application for membership in the Union was read from
Eevd. J. F. Malcolm, and referred to the Membership Committee.
The Eevd. W. Williams addressed the Union on behalf of the
French Canadian Missionary Society.
The Finance Committee requested liberty to pay delegates who
had to leave. — (rranted.
Eevd. Prof. Fenwick, on behalf of the Montreal Churches,
invited the Union to meet in that city next June. Eeferred to
Nomination Committee.
Eevd. John Wood extended a similar invitation to the Union to
meet in Ottawa. Eeferred to Nomination Committee.
The Membership Committee reported recommending that the
Eevd. D. Camelon, of London, Ont., be invited to sit as a correspond-
ing member. — Carried.
The Eevd. Dr. Wilkes addressed the Union on behalf of the
Labrador Mission.
On motion, the thanks of the Union were tendered to the Eevd.
J. A. E. Dickson for his address, delivered on retiring frem the chair.
The Nomination Committee reported, recommending the fol-
lowing appointments for Lord's day :
1. Eevds. John Wood, W. H. Allworth and Prof. Fenwick, to
address the Sabbath School meeting in the afternoon.
2. Eevd. C. Duff to preach the morning sermon.
3. Appointments for city pulpits. Eeport adopted.
Friday Evening.
A social meeting was held in the evening, when the brethren
appointed, Eevds. J. B. Silcox, J. E. Black and Mr. C. Pedley,
delivered addresses.
Saturday Morning, June 8th.
The devotional exercises were conducted by the Eevd. Thomas
Hall.
Minutes were read and confirmed. Business Committee reported
docket of business.
The Membership Committee reported, recommending :
1. That the Eevds. E. C. W. McColl, J. F. Malcolm, and H. D.
Hunter, be received into the Union.
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2. That Eevds. Jacob W. Cox, B.A., of Nova Scotia, Messrs. C.
E. Black. Donald McKinnon, and John McKinnon, be invited to sit
as corresponding members.
On motion, the report was adopted.
On motion : Resolved, — That the Eevds. Dr. Wilkes, Dr.
Cornish, Prof, K. M. Fenwick, and the Chairman of the Union, be
the Committee referred to in the resolution concerning the with-
drawal from the Union of the Bond Street Church, Toronto.
The Nomination Committee reported, recommending that the
invitation given by the first Church, Kingston, to entertain the
Union at its next annual meeting, be accepted. — Carried.
The following resolutions were moved by the Eevd. Prof.
Cornish, seconded by Eev. J. A. E. Dickson, and carried.
Whereas, In these times when Atheists and Pantheists, Posi-
tivists and the advocates of a so-c^llled Liberal Christianity are
making persistent eftbrts to undermine and overthrow the funda-
mental truths of the religion of Jesus Christ, it is the prime and
paramount duty of all who bear the name of Christ to stand forth in
defence of these truths,
Be it therefore Resolved, (1.) That this Union regards with grate-
ful satisfaction and sympathy the stand which the Congregational
Union of England and Wales has recently felt it to be its duty to
take in opposition to the aims and tendencies of scepticism and
unbelief as developed by the Leicester Conference.
(2.) That this Union tenders to the Congregational Union oi
England and Wales its sincere congratulations in that it was enabled,
with such commanding eloquence and loyalty to truth, to maintain
the position it took, and by so overwhelming a majority to vindicate
itself from the imputation of any sympathy or complicity with the
rationalistic theology of the age.
(3.) That the Secretary of the Union be instructed to forward a
copy of these resolutions to the Chairman of the Congregational
Union of England and Wales.
On motion, it was Resolved by a standing vote. That this Union
has heard with deep sorrow of the decease of our beloved brethren
the Eevds E. J. Sherrill, A. J. Parker and Henry Sanders, membez's
of the Union, and of the Eevd. Wm. Clark, a former member of the
same ; and while it tenders respectful sympathy and condolence to
the friends and relatives of these departed servants of Jesus, it also
I'ejoices with thera in remembrance of the rest and reward into
which those they mourn have forever entered.
On motion, the Directors of the Canadian Independent were
gi^anted time to present its claims to the Union. The Editor
declared the intention of the Directors to begin a weekly paper in
January, 1879. Mr. Cameron, of the London Advertiser, and Dr.
Cornish, both spoke on the subject.
The Finance Committee reported.
58 i^muTES OF the union.
Lord's Day, June 9th.
The annual sermon appointed by the Union was delivered at
the morning service, in the Congregational Church, by the Eev.
Charles Duff, M.A. of Speedside, Ont, from John xiv, 30 : " Hereafter
1 will not talk much with you ; for the Prince of this world cometh
and hath nothing in me."
At 3 p. m. the children and friends of the Sabbath School as-
sembled to hear addresses from the appointed brethren. The Eev.
K. M. Fenwick spoke on "Faith in Jesus." The Eev W. H. All-
worth on " Love to Jesus." The Eev. J. Wood on the " Tenderness
of Jesus."
In the evening the Eev. Dr. Wilkes preached from John xiv, 17.
" And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Com-
forter, &c."
A large audience was in attendance.
At the close a united communion service was held. The pastor,
Eev. E. W. Wallace, presided, being assisted in the administration
by four of his brethren — Eev. Messrs. E. K. Black, Macallum, Cox,
of Nova Scotia, and Hall, of Newfoundland.
Monday Morning, June 10.
The devotional exercises were conducted by the Revd. John
Brown.
Minutes were read and approved.
EoU called.
Business Committee reported docket of business.
Membership Committee reported, recommending that Calvary
Church, Montreal, be received into the Union. — Adopted.
The Union rose to give place to the C. C. Missionary Society.
On resuming business, the Nomination Committee made the
following recommendations for 1878-9 :
1. Annual Sermon — Eevd. W. H. Allworth ; alternate, Eevd.
E. W. Wallace.
2. Sabbath Morning Sermon — Eevd. W. Hay ; alternate, Eevd.
E. D. Silcox.
3. Union Committee — Eevds. S. N. Jackson, W. M. Peacock, J.
Wood, E. Mackay, W. H. Allworth, Dr. Wilkes, J. A. E. Dickson,
Dr. Cornish, D. Macallum; Messrs. G. S. Fenwick, Thos. Eobert-
son (Montreal), G-. Eobertson, J. McFarlane, B. W. Eobertson, J.
Simmonds, G. Pirn, F. B. Osborne ; Eevd. Prof. K. M. Fenwick,
Secretary-Treasurer ; Eevd. W. H. VVarriner, Statistical Secretary.
4. Speakers at the Annual Public Meeting, with their subjects:
(1.) " Congregationalism in relation to the Free Thought
of the Age."— Eevd. J. F. Stevenson, LL.B.
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(2.) " Congregationalism as a Spiritual Power." — -Eevd.
Joseph Griffith.
(3.) " Congregationalism as an Aggressive Power." — Greo.
Hague, Esq.
5. Essays and their Writers :
(1.) " The relation of Children to the Church."— Kevd. E.
Hay.
(2.) « The Present Aspect of Sabbath School Work and its
Demands." — Eevd. J. B. Silcox.
(3.) '•' In what way can our Union Meetings be made a
more vital or effective means of intellectual and
spiritual quickening." — Eevd. W. Manchee.
(4.) " What are the essential elements of Unity in Denomi-
national Fellowship and Action." — Dr. Wilkes.
Monday, 2 o'clock.
On motion : Resolved, That whereas certain recommendations to
the Churches, passed in the Union held at Montreal, June, 1876,
have since been published in the Tear Book among the Standing
Eules of the Union, and numbered 14, 15, 16 ; therefore, be it
Resolved, that such recommendations be removed from the list of
Standing Eules of the Union, and be appended thereto simply as
recommendations to the Churches. — Carried.
The Committee appointed to consider the Union Committee's
report on the opinions of Congregational Churches in reference to
Church Principles, rejjorted, recommending that the document, as
originally read, be accepted. The last clause, concerning Baptism,
was amended, when, on motion, it was adopted as a whole. (For
document, see page 44.)
The case of the Eevd. H. Denny was presented. It was resolved
that each Church be requested to give one Sacramental collection
during the year to this aged and needy Minister ; and that the Eevd.
J. Unsworth be appointed to disburse the fund.
The Eevd. W. H. Allworth presented the claims of the Provi-
dent Fund.
On motion : Resolved, That this Union rejoices in the manifest
growth of the principles of Total Abstinence in our land, as evidenced
by the temperance revival of this past year, when so many who had
been enslaved by intemperate habits have been graciously disen-
thralled, and many qjT those who had been indifferent to this branch
of christian effort have pledged to it their influence and co-operation ;
That it rejoices further in the changed attitude of many of the
public prints towards this great question ; and also in the zeal which
the various sections of the Christian Church are bringing to the con-
flict with intemperance j
60 kiNUTES OF THE UNlOK.
And that it also rejoices in the passage of the new Permissive
Temperance Act, as a measure in advance of pi-evious legislation on
this subject, and calculated, if wisely and faithfully administered, to
be of great service to our entire Dominion ; and hopes the time may
soon come when the habits of sobriety may supplant the present
habits of intemperance among the masses of our Canadian people,
and Canada be crowned with the blessings which total abstinence is
fitted to secure to any and every nation.
Monday Evening.
Public meeting of the Union held at 7.30. The Eevd. John
Wood led in prayer.
The Eevd. S. N. Jackson addressed the meeting on " The Claims
and Needs of the times in which we live."
The Eevd. Thos. Hall, of Newfoundland, on the work before us,
*' What are we going to do ?"
The Eevd. Prof. K. M. Fenwick gave a resume of the work done
during the sessions of the Union.
Moved by the Eevd. W. H. All worth, seconded by Dr. Cornish,
and supported b}' Dr. Wilkes, and carried by a standing vote, That
the members of the Congregational Union take this opportunity of
recording their sincere thanks to the Eevd. E. W. Wallace, and to
the members of the London Church and congregation, together with
the friends of other denominations, who have kindly taken part in
entertaining them during the meetings of the Union; and they
desire, also, to record their cordial appreciation of the successful
efforts of the choir in adding to the interest of the meeting by their
efiicient service of song.
On motion : Resolved, That thanks be tendered to the Eailways
and Steamboat Companies for their reduced fares.
The Eevd. E. W. Wallace gave a brief farewell address.
The ministers and delegates gathered round the platform and
united in singing the parting hymn, " Blest be the tie that binds."
The Eevd. Dr. Wilkes led in prayer, the benediction was pro-
nounced by the Chairman, and the Union adjourned, to meet in
Kingston, in June, 1879.
J. B. SILCOX,
Minute Secretary.
CONTRIEUTIONS.
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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CHURCHES TO THE FUNDS
OF THE UNION, 1878.
Lanark $ 6 75
Toronto, Western 6 00
Zion 15 00
Nortliern 20 00
Yorkville 7 25
Stratford 6 00
Guelph, First 10 00
Zion 5 00
Paris 4 30
Newmarket 4 00
Ottawa 10 00
Garafraxa 4 00
Hamilton 15 00
Kingston 22 00
« Bethel 5 50
Quebec 12 00
Indian Lands and Martintown 10 40
StoufFville 5 55
Granby 11 45
Sarnia 2 00
Owen Sound 7 50
Listowel 1 00
Embro 5 00
Brantford 7 00
Alton and North Erin $ 4 00
Forest, Watford and Warwick 7 50
Georgetown 4 53
Oro 5 00
Cowansville and Brigham ... 7 42
Scotland and Burford 6 25
Middleville 8 67
Howick 5 00
Belleville 5 00
Montreal, Eastern 6 00
" Emmanuel -50 00
" Calvary 6 00
Unionville and Markham... 4 00
Douglas 4 00
Wiarton 2 50
Manilla 6 00
Bowmanville 6 00
Melbourne 8 00
Speedside 5 00
Pine Grove 8 25
St. Catharines 5 00
$365 82
P. H. BURTON,
Chairman Finance Committee,
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR 1877-8.
This year we have only reports from 78, against 83 last year. Two who
have not reported we have taken from last year's table, a practice which can-
not be continued. In most cases the financial reports extend from January,
1877 to January, 1878. The other matter extends from June to June.
. Number of Churches, Pastors, Attendance,
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No. of Churches on table
No. of Pastors "
No. of Regular Stations
Total Attendance at all Stations
Total number under pastoral care
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Total value of Church Property
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Foreign, French and Indian Missions
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8. Addends — Unreported Churches—
13 Churches ; 12 Church Edifices ; 2 Parson-
ages ; 2.,380 Cliurch Sittings. Value of
Church Property, $27,250, which added
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No. of Sittings
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70 CHUECHES WHICH HAVE NOT FURNISHED THEIE STATISTICS.
CHURCHES WHICH HAVE NOT FURNISHED STATISTICS.
The figures have been taken from former tables and relate merely to property.
Names of Churches.
Parsonagks.
Church Edifices
Descrip-
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* 1 Albion
2 Brockville
3 Fergus
14 Garafraxa, North,
6 Meaford
t 6 Molesvvorth
t 7 South Caledon . . . ,
t8 Tilbury
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tlO Durham ,
til St. Andrews
1 12 Stanstead, South,
13 Waterloo
Brick
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Wood
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500
Wood
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Brick
Frame
12
Sittings
200
300
220
100
200
120
65
200
225
250
300
200
2,.380
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2,000
10,000
1,100
150
1,250
300
350
2,000
2,000
2,400
800
22,350
Total
Value of
Property
2,000
10,000
1,100
150
1,250
300
500
350
2,000
2,000
2,400
4,400
800
27,250
* Pastor — Joseph' Wheeler.
t Church organization supposed still to exist.
i Pastor — E. J. Burgess.-
MINUTES OF THE 31ST ANNUAL MEETING
OP THE
CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF NOVA SCOTIA AND
NEW BRUNSWICK,
HELD IN YARMOUTH. N.S., SEPTEMBER 7-1 1th, 1878.
WITH STATISTICAL TABLE.
APPOINTMP]NTS FOR 1878-9.
CHAIRMAN:
The Rev. James Shipperly, Chebogue, N. S.
SECRETARY:
The Rev. Duncan McGregor, M.A.,, Liverpool, N. S.
STATISTICAL SECRETARY:
The Rev. Joseph Barker, Sheffield, N. B.
MINUTE SECRETARIES:
Rev. J. W. Cox, and C. J. Burpee, Esq.
MISSIONARY SECRETARY:
The Rev. Alexander McGrregor, Yarmontli, N. S,
TREASURER:
Mr. James Woodrow, St. John, N. B.
COMMITTEE:
Rev. C. B. Woodcock, M. A.., Mr, H. P. Bridges,
" S. S.ykes, " T. B. Barker,
Hon. F. Tupper, " W. Creelman,
Mr. W. Anderson, " Freeman Dennis.
PLACE AND TIME OF NEXT MEETING:
Keswick Ridge, N. B., July, 1879.
PREACHER OF ANNUAL SERMON:
Rev. D. McGregor, M.A.
PAPERS TO BE PREPARED:
" The Management of Sabbath Schools."— Mr. W. T. Sterritt, ot
Yarmouth.
Also, by the Revds. C. B. Woodcock, Alex. McGregor, and J. W.
Cox. — Subjects not given.
Y2
CONSTITUTION.
LIST OF MINISTERS ASSOCIATED, WITH THEIE POST
OFFICE ADDRESSES.
Barker, E., Milton, N. S.
Barker, Josei:)li, Sheffield. N. B.
Cox, J. W., B.A., Lower Selmah, N. S.
Hawes, J. B., Maitland, N. S.
Hickey, D., Pleasant River, N. S.
McGregor, Alex., Yarmouth, N.S.
McGregor, D., M.A., Liverpool, N. S.
Peacock, William, Margaree, N. S.
Peckover, H , Brooklyn, N. S.
Shipperley, James, Chebogue, N. S.
Sykes, Simeon, Keswick Ridge, N. B.
Whitman, Jacob, Manchester, N. S.
Woodcock, C. B., M.A., St. John, N . B.
LIST OF ASSOCIATED CHURCHES.
Brooklyn and Beach Meadows, N.S.
Cardigan, N. B.
Chebogue, N. S.
Cornwallis, N. S.
Economy, N. S.
Halifax, N. S.
Keswick Ridge, N. B.
Liverpool, N, S.
Lower Selmah, N. S.
Maitland, N. S,
Margaree, N. S.
Milton, N.S.
Moose Brook, N. S.
Noel, N. S.
Pleasant River, N.S.
Sheffield, N.B.
St. John,N.B.
South Maitland, N. S.
Yarmouth, N. S.
Other Churches. — Milltown, N. B.; Manchester, N. S.
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
1. This Corporation shall be called "The Coxgregational Union of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick."
2. Thi^? Corporation shall consist of the persons named in the Acts of
Incorporation by the Legislatures of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in the
year 1862 ; of Delegates from Congregational Churches that have been recog-
nized and admitted to the fellowship of this Union, such Delegates not to exceed
two in number from each church; and of ministers of the same church order,
who shall be recognized and admitted as members at the Annual Meeting of
the Union.
3. The Corporation shall have in connection with it an Honorary Member-
ship, with the privilege cf a share in its deliberations and business, but without
,the right to vote. And all officers of this Union, or members of " The Union
Committee," or of any of the Committees of the Union, not being members of
cbNSTittjfioiiF. 73
the Union, shall be considered Honoraiy Members; and the Union may elect
such persons to Honorary Membership for the session as it may deem proper
and advisable.
4. This Union is founded on the full recognition of the distinctive principles
of Congregational churches, namely : the Scriptural right of every separate
church to maintain perfect independence in its government and administration ;
and, therefore, this Union shall not assume legislative or administrative
authority, or in any case become a Court of Appeal.
5. The following are the objects contemplated in its information: — 1.. To
promote evangelical religion in connection with the Congregational Denom-
ination, especially by such means as Missionary efforts, educating young men
tor the ministry, and aiding or sustaining weak churches in the body. 2. To
cultivate brotherly affection and co-operatiou in everything relating to the
interestsof the associated churches. 3. To establish fraternal correspondence
with similar bodies elsewhere. 4. To obtain accurate statistical information
relative to the Congregational churches in these Provinces. 5. To hold
consultation on questions of general interest connected with the cause of
Christ.
6. To promote the accomplishment of these objects and the general
interests of the Union, an Annual Meeting of its members shall be held at
such time and place as may be appointed at each Annual Meeting, or, if
necessary, by the Committee of the Union.
7. The Presiding Officer shall be a Chairman or President, chosen by the
Union from its Delegates or personal members in the early part of each
Annual Session, and shall also be the Chairman of the Union Committee.
8. The other officers shall be a Secretary, a Missionary Secretary, a
Treasurer and such other members as shall be elected to compose the remain-
der of the Union Committee.
9. The affairs of this Union, as now incorporated, shall be under the
control and management of the Union Committee, consisting of the President
or Chairman of the Union, the Treasurer and Secretaries, and such other
persons being members of Congi-egational churches in connection with this
Union as shall be elected at the Annual Meeting. The Committee to be
under the direction of the Union, to execute its instructions, prepare a docket
of business for its Annual Meeting, and to act for and on behalf of the Union
in all matters requiring action between the times of the meetings of the Union,
which action shall be subject to the approval of the Union when it meets for
bvisiness.
10. The Secretary of the Union shall be the Secretary of the Union
Commiteee, and shall have charge of the Books of Records, Constitution,
By-laws, Rules and Regulations of the Union, and shall have charge of the
general correspondence of the Union, except such correspondence as relates
purely to matters of a Missionary character.
11. The Missionary Secretary shall have charge of the correspondence
which is purely of a Missionary character.
12. This Union shsll meet on the Thursday following the first Sunday in
Jul}^, of each year, or as near thereto as advisable or practicable, for organiza-
tion, the Chairman elected the previous year presiding, failing whom one of
the officers or members of the Union Committee.
1.3. All applications for admission to personal membership, shall be made
through the Secretary, who shall report them to the Union at its Annual Meet-
ing, and be at once referred to the Membership Committee for full enquiry.
Ui)on their report that the evidence of good standing is sufficient and satisfa'c
tory, the applicants shall be eligible for immediate admission by unanimous
vote; failing to obtain whi(;h, they shall stand proposed by consent of the
74 OONStiTUTiOBf.
Union (with the privilege of Honorary Membership), until the next Annual
Meeting, at which, after a further report from the Membership Committee,
they may be fully received by a vote of two-thirds of the Members of the
Union in attendance
14. A church may depute as its delegate to the Union Meeting, a member
who may be in good standing in any other Congregational church.
15. The Union may atopointon its Committees members of Churches in
connection with the Union, who are not personal members or delegates.
16. Application shall be made by the Secretary, one month at least before
the Annual Meeting, for statistics of the several churches in Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick, and a brief narrative of the state of religion among them, that
he may prepare a report for the Meeting of the Union.
17. The Secretary shall make an appeal annually to each church connect-
ed with the Union, to take up, some time in the month preceding the" Annual
Meeting, a collection in aid of its funds. From this source, in addition to the
other expenses of the Union, the travelling fares of the Ministerial Members
of the Union, and of one delegate from each church contributing for the year,
shall be paid in full, if possible; the deficiency, if any, being divided by the
number of members herein defined as entitled toparticipate, and the amount of
such dividend being deducted from the sum otherwise to be paid to each such
member, on the understanding that such ministers and delegates shall remain
during the Sessional Meetings, except with leave from the Chair.
18. Delegates from the Union to Corresponding bodies, who may fail to
fulfil their appointments by personal attendance, shall address the bodies by
letter, communicating in substance such information and sentiments as they
would furnish if present at the Annual Meeting.
19. The following shall be the present plan of action for ijromoting mis-
sion work in the Provinces, viz : —
(1.) That each church shall be requested to take up an Annual Collection
and Subscriptions.
(2 ) That this Union co-operate in this work with the Colonial Missionary
Society, as far as practicable through the Canada Congregational Missionai-y
Society.
(3.) That the Union Committee shall be considered the Missionary Commit-
tee in charge of all Missionary operations. All applications for aid from
the Missionary funds must be presented to the committee through the Mis-
sionary Secretary, and receive the sanction of the Committee prior ,to trans-
mission to the General Committee of Canada.
(4.) That the Committee meet for the transaction of business, Missionary
or otherwise, at the meetings of the Union.
(5.) In order that our Missionary claims may be fully understood by the
general Missionary Committee of Canada, and according to exj^ress agreement
made with this Union, two delegates shall be appointed annually to attend
the meetings of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, and the
general Missionary Commiitee of Canada. The expenses of the Missionary
Secretary or his substitute to be paid.
(■6.) Pastors receiving aid must send regular reports of their fields of labor,
every six months, to the Missionary Secretary.
20. The expenses of the Secretaries of the Union in attending its meetings
shall be paid, except when provided for by Article 17.
21. Alterations may be made in this Constitution by an annual Meeting,
provided that notice of the proposed alterations shall be given, at a previous
meeting, and that snch alterations ehall not be inconsistent with the Acts of In-
corporation.
RULES.
n
RULES.
1. At the appointed time for the assembling of the Union, the chair shall
be taken by the Chairman, or in his absence by oheof the officers of tlie Union,
or a member of the Union Committee, or failing any of these by a member of
the Union.
2. After preliminary devotional exercises the Union shall be called to
order.
3. A Minute Secretary shall be appointed, who shall take .the minutes
during the Session, and assist the Secretary.
4. The Secretary shall form a Sessional Roll, containing the names of the
personal members attending the session, and the names of delegates appointed
to represent the churches, marking opposite the names of such delegates the
words " in attendance," or otherwise. A list of Honorary Members shall also
be taken.
5. A temporary Nominating Committee shall be appointed by the Chair-
man as soon as the roll is called. This Committee shall, as soon as practic-
able, report the names of five persons to form a Business Committee, three tor
a Membership Committee, ancf three for a Financial Committee. The Nomin-
ating Committee will name the members of other Committees as soon as con-
venient.
6. The exercises may be intermingled with singing and prayer, until the
Committees are named, and at any time while there is a lull in business, or
otherwise.
7. The records of the previous Annual Session will be read, and, if
correct, approved and signed.
8. The names reported for Committees shall be submitted to the Union
by the Chairman for approval, or otherwise.
9. The nominations and resolutions submitted by the Business and
other Committees will not debar any member from proposing amendments or
alterations.
10. An election shall be held for President or Chairman each year.
Should there be more than one candidate named, the election shall be by
ballot.
11. Reports may be handed in or resolutions offered.
12. Reports and resolutions shall be referred by the Chairman to the res-
pective Committees for consideration before discussion.
12. The Business Committee shall examine the records of the previous
session, to see if any business arises out of the minutes of the previous meet-
ing.
14. All meetings shall be considered meetings of the Union, but the even-
ing meetings shall, as far as practicable, be divested of a business character,
and more particularl}' devoted to addresses.
15. The first evening session shall, if practicable, be devoted in part to the
address of the retiring Chairman, and may be styled the Public Meeting of
the Union.
16. The second meeting shall be devoted, if practicable to a Missionary
Meeting.
17. At each Annual Session a preacher shall be appointed for the next
Annual Meeting.
18. The Annual Sermon will be delivered on Sunday morning.
tB RFLES.
19. Every resolution will be put in writing if required.
20. Every motion or resolution will require a seconder.
21. When a question is under discussion, no motion shall be received ex-
cept for adjournment, amendment, postponement, commitment, division of the
question, the previous question, to Jay on the table, or yeas and nays ; and
such motions, except those fbr amendment, shall not be debatable.
22. An amendment to an amendment can be made.
23. A motion for the amendment of a resolution or amendment shall be
m order ; and if carried, the resolution as amended shall then be voted on.
24. Before the Annual Session closes, the Secretaries, Treasurer, Union
Committee, i«etc., shall be ajipointed for the ensuing year.
25. The minutes of each sitting shall be read at the commencement of the
following; and the minutes of the last session at its close.
26. The church, in whose locality the Annual Meeting shall be held, shall
be requested to celebrate the Lord's Supper in connection with the meeting.
27. Unless otherwise provided for, the meetings shall be held each day,
as follows :— From 9.30 to 12 ; 2 to 5; and from 7.30 to 9.30.
28. Alterations in these Eules may be proposed at any sitting, and changes
and amendments made by a majority vote.
CONGREGATIONAL UNtON OF N.S. AND N.B. 77
ABSTEACT OF PKOCEE DINGS.
Yarmouth, N.S., Sept. 7th to 11th, 1878.
The Annual Meeting of this body was held in the Tabernacle
Church, Yarmouth, iST.S., commencing on Satui-day, the 7th Sep-
tember. This Church building had recently undergone internal
improvements at a large outlay during the absence of the Pastor.
The Union was organized on Saturday morning, the Eev. J. W.
Cox having teen appointed Minute Secretary, and Charles J. Burpee, ,
Esq., Assistant. A Sessional roll was formed, the minutes of the
previous year were read and contirmed, and the usual routine
business transacted.
The Sessions of the Union were j)receded every morning by a
prayer meeting about 40 minutes in duration.
The attendance at the morning and afternoon meetings was
good, and at the evening public meetings the attendance was large.
The Personnel of the Union. — There were present of the
Personal Members the following niinisters : —
Eev. Simeon Sykes, of Keswick Eidge.
" Alexander McGregor, of Yarmouth.
" Duncan McGregor, of Liverpool.
" James Shipperley, of Chebogne.
" Jacob Whitman, of Manchester.
" Joseph Barker, of Sheffield.
" J. B. Hawes, of Maithind.
" William Peacock, of Margaree.
Eev. J. W. Cox, of Noel ; Eev. E. Eoso, of Economy ; Eev. E.
Barker, of Milton ; and Eev. David Hickey, of Pleasant Eiver, were
also in attendance.
The Delegates to the Union were as follows : — Messrs. James
Woodrow and Eobert Wales, St. John ; W. Anderson and J. DeWolf,
Pleasant Eiver ; E. Faulkner, Moose Brook and Lower ^^elmah ; W.
H. Freeman, Milton ; C. Burnaby, Pleasant Eiver ; Jacob Crosby
and W. T. Sterritt, Yarmouth.
Honorary Members. — Mr. Alex. Eobertson, Montreal ; James
O'Brien, Noel; Freeman Dennis, Y^armouth, and others.
Several ministers of other denominations being in attendance
were voted honorary members.
78 ' CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF N.S. AND N.B.
Committees were appointed, of which the following persons were
the Conveners : — Rev. A. McGregor, Nominating Committee ; James
Woodrow, Esq., Business Committee ; Eev. D. McCregor, Member-
ship Committee; Kev. J. Barker. Finance Committee; Eev. A.
McC-regor, Public Services Committee ; Capt. J. Crosby, Audit Com-
mittee.
The Secretary read a fraternal letter from Eev. T. Hall, of St.
John's, Nfld., in which he gave an interesting account ol his church
work. Ten years ago there was but one Congregational Church
in the Island — that in the capital. Now there are four, with one
student. They have also a Training Mission School, with two head
and ten pupil Teachers. The public school system not being free,
they have had also to take hold of school work.
The Eetiring Address was delivered on Saturday afternoon,
at 3 o'clock, by Eev. Simeon Sykes. The subject being " The King-
dom of God not in word but in power." The address was a plea for
Evangelical truth. In it Mr. Sykes alluded to the result of the so-
called liberal movement of the " Leicester Conference," as indicating
in the clearest method the orthodoxy of the Congregational Union of
England and Wales in regard to the questions lately agitated, and
also that of the Theological Colleges of the States.
The Officers of the Union. — Eev. James Shipperlej', of
Chebogue, N.S., was elected Chairman for the ensuing year; Eev.
D. McGregor, Secretary ; Eev. Joseph Barker, Statistical Secretary ;
Eev. Alex. McGregor, Missionary Secretary; James Woodrow, Esq.,
Treasurer.
These officers with the following persons compose the Union
and" Missionary Committee: — Eev. Charles B. Woodcock, Eev. S.
Sykes, Hon. Freeman Tupper, and Messrs. W. Anderson, Freeman
Dennis, T. B. Barker, H. P. Bridges and W. Creelman.
After the new Chairman had tendered thanks to the Union?
remarks on the retiring address were made by Eev. D. McGregor
and W. H. Freeman, Esq.
Sabbath Services. — On Sabbath most of the pulpits of the
town and neighbourhood were filled by members of the Union.
The Tabernacle was crowded both morning and evening. The
Annual Sermon was preached in the morning by Eev. E. Barker
[i-ubstitute for Eev. C. B. Woodcock, who was absent through
lUnessJ from the text. Gal. I. 22, " Churches in Christ." The even-
ing preacher was Eev. Arch. F. McGregor, of Listowel, Ont., text,
Eom. VIII. 28 : " We know that all things work together," &c. At
the close of the latter service, the Communion of the Lord's Supper
was observed, in which the members of the Union, and many from
other churches in the town, joined with the Tabernacle Church.
Addresses were made to the Sunday School in the afternoon by
Eev. E. Barker and Mr. Woodrow ; and at 4 o'clock, by invitation,
CONGEEGATIONAL UNION OF N.S. AND N.B. T9
the members and delegates attended a crowded meeting in the Tem-
perance Hall, under the auspices of the Eeform Club. Temperance
addresses were made by Eev. Messrs. E. JBarker, S. Sykes, and A. F.
McGregor, and Messrs. Eobert Wales and James Woodrow.
Eeading of Papers. — The sessions of the Union were enlivened
by the reading of papers, as follows : — On Monday forenoon, a paper
by James Woodrow, Esq., entitled '' Church organization,'' elicited
an animated discussion, in which Eev. Messrs. Alexander McGregor,
E, Eose, Duncan McGregor, J. B. Hawes and W. H. Freeman, Esq.,
and others jjarticipated. On Monday afternoon, Eev. Joseph Barker
read a paper on " Church finances," advocating a system of weekly
offerings and the giving for religious purposes according to means
and ability. This paper was followed by a discussion in which Eev.
Messrs. McGregor, Hawes and Shipperley, and Messrs. Fi-eeman
Dennis, William Anderson and others participated. On Tuesday
morning, Eev. J. B. Hawes read a paper on " Sabbath School work,"
which was discussed by Eev. A. McGregor, Eev. S. Sykes, Mr. James
Woodrow, Mr. W. Anderson, and others. On Tuesday afternoon, a
paper was read by the Eev. B. Barker on "Fellowship of the
churches," advocating a fuller organization of our churches into
District Associations. The subject was immediately taken up and
acted upon, by the initiation of proceedings towards the formation of
three or four Associations in Nova Scotia, and a separate one for iNew
Brunswick.
Public Meetings. — The annual missionary meeting was held
on Monday evening. Freeman Dennis, Esq., in the chair. After
singing and reading of Scriptui'e, and prayer offered by Mr. Lewis,
Eev. A. McGregor, Secretary, gave an abstract of the general Eeport,
and read also the Eeport of the Ladies' Home Missionary Society,
organized last year. Eev. D. McGregor read an interesting paper on
"Woman and the work of Christ," divided into three parts: —
1. Woman in the church. 2. Woman adorning the church. 3.
Woman serving the church. The meeting, closed with an address
by the Eev. D. Hickey. A collection was taken up amounting to
$29.14.
On Tuesday evening, the public meeting of the Union was held,
the Chairman of trie Union presiding. After introductory exercises,
Eev. E. Eose gave a brief account of his labors in Economy. Eev.
Archd. McGregoi", s])oke on the Service of Song in the house of God.
James Woodrow, E^q., had for his subject, "Congregationalism and
the Berlin Congress." Eev..]. W. Cox, addressed the congregation
on " Personality in Eeligion." Eev. E. Barker spoke on " Popular
Amusements viewed from a christian standpoint."
On Wednesday evening, the Prayer Meeting of the Church in
Yarmouth was held, Eev. Alexander McGregor ])residing, this meet-
ing being in ])art of the nature of a Farewell Meeting with the
ministers and delegates in attendance at the meetings of the Union.
80 CONGREGATIONAL ONION OF N.S. AND N.B.
Reports. — The Treasurer of the Union road his report ; expen-
diture during the year, 11407. The Secretaiy's report was given.
The Statistical Secretary's report showed that there were : — Chui'ches,
21; Pastors, 14; members, 1,167 ; number in congregations, 3,480;
net increase of membership, 83; amounts raised during the year,
^14,174; value of j^ropertj- owned by the churches, $116,075.
Rev. D. McGregor, delegate to the Congregational Union of
Ontario and Quebec, reported. Rev. Joseph Barker, delegate to the
Maine Conference, reported.
Eeports were also given from a number of the churches.
The Finance Committee reported statement of receipts and
disbursements in connnection with the travelling expenses to the
meetings of the Union.
The thanks of the Union were voted to the Chairman for his
retiring address ; to the members who prepared and read papers;
and to the Railwaj^ and steamboat lines for the reduction of fares.
New Members, &c. — On recommendation of the Business Com-
mittee, Rev. Messrs. Enoch Barker, J. W. Cox, and D. Hickey were
received as personal members. The Church at Economy was also
received.
Appointments for next year. — Rev. D. McGregor was ap-
Ijointed to preach the Annual Sermon ; Rev. D. Hickey alternate.
Mr. W. T. Sterritt, of Yarmouth, was appointed to read a paper on
the " Management of Sabbath Schools." Rev. Charles B. Woodcock,
Rev. A. McGregor, and Rev. J. W Cox, were appointed to prepare
papers, — subjects not given.
Deferred. — The report of the committee appointed in 1877 to
prepare a statement of doctrinal belief was deferred until next year.
Trust Deeds. — A Committee, consisting of Messrs. James
Woodrow and J. D. Robertson, of St. John, were appointed to make
enquiries and prepare a Trust Deed for use in the churches in con-
nection with the Union ; also to ascertain how many ot the present
deeds give a reversionary interest to the Union.
Closing Meeting. — At the close of the Farewell Meeting on
Wednesday evening, llth September, the Union resumed.
A resolution of thanks to the Ladies and friends of Yarmouth
for their generous hospitality was moved by Mr. Robert Wales of St.
John, seconded by Mr. Charles J. Burpee, of Sheffield, and adopted.
The Missionary Committee reported that after considerable
deliberation, the following resolution had been adopted, and asked
the Union to concur: —
Eeaolved, That while we gratefully record tlie happy results of past union
aud co-operation M'ith the Canada Congregational Missionary Society, this
Union and Missionary Committee, believes the time to have arrived when the
(CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF N.6. AND N.B. 81
best interest?! of the Missionary churches of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
will be subserved b}- the discontinuance of the present financial relations
between us and the Canada Congregatfonal Missionary Society, and that
such connexion do cease on the thirtieth of June next.
This resolution was adopted by the Union. The Union then
adjourned to meet in July next at Keswick Eidge, New Brunswick.
Lames' Missionary Aid Society. — In connection with the
sessions of the Union, the Ladies' Missionary Aid Society held its
Annual Meeting in the vestry ot the Tabernacle Church, on Wednes-
day, at 2 o'clock, Mrs. Alexander McGregor, President, in the chair,
and Miss J. D. Tupper, acting Secretary, in place of Miss Louisa
Burpee, who was absent. Officers elected for the ensuing year : Mrs.
A. McGregor, President; Mrs. E. Barker, Vice-President; Miss
Louisa Burpee, Secretary; Mrs. Freeman Dennis, Treasurer ; Mrs.
i). McGregor, Miss Cox, and Miss J. D. Tupper, were appointed a
Committee to prepare work for the coming year. The Secretaries of
the Local Societies were to be requested to send in their annual
reports to the General Secretary at least one month before the
annual meeting, to be held simultaneously with the Union meeting
at Keswick Ridge in July next.
STATISTICAL TABLES,
No. T.— STATISTICS (Membership) OF THE CONGREGATIONAL
FOR THE YEAR
CHURCHES
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5
C
s
a>
32
s
Ph
6
Membership.
Sabbath
Additions.
Removals.
Present Numbers.
Schools.
NAMES.
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0 ::^
^ 1 (V
3
ii
'9
66
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6
1
1
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2
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1
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'5
2
2
5
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7
2
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33
74
50
18
32
26
10
15
7
i4
3
12
24
39
23
59
64
to
'cS
103
59
45
68
36
16
.33
5
44
3
24
27
50
36
85
73
0
109
63
66
160
62
26
'48
13
"58
6
36
51
89
59
144
137
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0
10
6
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8
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14
15
28
8
110
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22
12
6
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9
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175
80
44
60
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100
36
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80
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30
52
25
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90
1146
0
CO
m
6
, (Brooklyn and ) s;
1 Beach meadows j j»
2 Cornwallis, N.S...
a Chebogue, N.S
4 Economy, N.S
5 Halifax, N.S
6 Keswick Ridge,N.B
7 Liverpool, N.S
8 Lower Selmah, N.S
9 Maitland, N.S....
10 Margaree, N.S
11 Manchester, N.S.. .
12Milltown,N.B
13 Milton, N.S
14 Moose BrookjN.S..
15 Noel, N.S
16 Ohio, N.S
17 Pleasant River, NS
18 Sheffield, N.B. ...
19 So. Maitland, N.S.
20 St. John, N.B
21 Yarmouth, N.S. ..
1819
1767
1877
1869
1826
1761
1875
1875
1822
ml
1875
1875
1877
1846
1768
1875
1844
1848
12
1
2
4
5
2
1
2
5
2
2
'9
1
8
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65
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6
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6
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2
1
1
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Total, 1878.
94
18'll216'lo! 3^29 396 604
1068
19
NOTES OF THE YEAR'S EXPERIENCE.— 2. The clerk writes : "I
presume there will be delegates to the Union and something done to revive
this church which is spiritually dead." 3. "Have commenced a monthly
service at a new station, three miles distance, called Sandbeach." 4 "Ayear
of spiritual prosperity." 7. Nothing of special interest to record. Our prayer
is, "0 Lord, revive Thy work," and our faith, that even in "The Valley of
Achor there is a door of hope." 8. The Pastor writes: "I am thankful to
state that there is a deep spiritual work in progress amongst the people. I
have also cause for gratitude tor the assistance I derive from the brethren who
seem more and more desirous to work with me." 10. "God has in his pro-
vidence been with us, and has given us during the year many sweet and
refreshing seasons. There have been discouragements but we have reason to
'thank God and take courage.'" 14. "We have been blessed here during
the year: souls have been brought to Christ and the people of God revived."
STATISTICAL TABLES.
83
CHURCHES IN NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK,
ENDING JUNE 30th, 1878.
MINIS TERS.
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300
150
120
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600
480
250
250
250
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2
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Jas. Shipperley..
Edwin Rose
P
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Private . . .
Private. ..
1871
1873
1877
1878
170
200
1 12
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1
2
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S. Sykes
D.AicGregor,M.A
J. W. Cox, B.A...
J. B. Hawes ....
W. Peacock
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Private. . . .
C. College.
C. College.
E. C. Sm..
Bangor Sm
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1863
1872
1877
1875
1875
1846
1872
1873
1877
1875
1875
1875
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3
2
2
1
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1
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1
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200
100
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60
500
150
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200
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600
150
150
125
200
70
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5
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6
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.. 2
1 6
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Enoch Barker...
J. W. Cox, B.A...
J. W. Cox, B.A. . .
David Hickey...
Duvid Hicl-cey. ..
Joseph Barker. .
J. B. Hawes
C. B, Woodcock.
Alex. McGregor.
p
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C. College.
C. College.
C. College.
Private
Private....
Bangor Sm
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Bangor Sm
C. College.
1855
1877
1877
1878
1878
1875
1875
1876
1863
1877
1877
1877
1877
1877
1876
1875
1876
1871
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2
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2
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75
100
100
80
100
80
125
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300
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100
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150
360
150
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250
300
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150
150
500
125
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16. " The spiritual aspects are far from discouraging. The Lord was graciously
pleased to bless special efibrts put forth at the commencement of the year in
the conversion of souls and a general awakening of believers. I regret however
to be under the necessity of adding that the " without money and without
price," view ot the Gospel appears to be more literally understood and insisted
upon by this otherwise worthy people than is at all times agreeable to the com-
fort of their Pastor." 20. " Nothing special ; everything has gone on quieth^
and regularly; congregation good, and prayer meetings well sustained."
21. "A year of considerable activity and life, though no conversions to report.
The various literary and missionary organizations connected with the church
have been giving a good report ol them.selves; even the boys and girls of the
Juvenile Missionary Society collected ten pounds in the month of March last
for the London Missionary Society with their New Year's Cards."
4 STATISTICAL TABLES.
No. 11.— STATISTICS (Property and Financial) OF CONGEEGA-
FOR YEAR ENDING
PRO PERTY.
ChUBCH BUILDIXGS.
PAKSON'AfiES.
CHURCHES.
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3
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Land Attached.
No. of xVcres.
Value.
, Brooklj-n and ) -^ ^
Beachmeadovv^ ^ ^ •' •
2 Cornwallis, N.S
?, Chebogue, N.S
4 Economy, N.S
2
1
1
WM
VV'd
W 'd
600
400
200
3600
2600
2600
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
1
1
1
W'd
W'd
W'd
2
3
12
2000
800
3000
5 Halifax, N.S,
1
2
1
W'd
W'd
W'd
750
400
15000
3000
9400
6 Keswick Ridge, N.B.. .
7 Liverpool, N.S
S Lower Selniab, N.S . .
No..
Yes.
Yes.
No..
600
2300
1
1
W'd
W'd
4
1100
900
9 Maitland, N.S
?
10 Margaree, N.S
11 Manchester, N.S......
1
1
1
c
o
1
W'd
W'd
W'd
W'd
W'd
200
200
300
1200
350
4000
....
Yes.
60
1
W'd
e
1000
12 Milton, N.S
No..
Yes.
1
W'd
l
1000
13 Moose Brook, N.S
14 Noel, N.S
300
1500
No..
No..
350
15 Ohio, N.S
16 Pleasant River, N.S...
17 Sheffield, N.B
18 South Maitland, N.S..
2
1
W'd
W'd
360
300
1300
2625
No..
Yes.
Yes.
No..
1
1
W'd
W'd
•2
600
1500
19 St. John, N.B
1
I
B'k
W'd
450
400
26000
26000
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
3000
1
W'd
1
20 Yarmouth, N.S
21 Milltown, N.B
5000
17
1
1
Total, 1878..
4860
99175
6250'l0
1
16900
6TAT1STICAL TABLES.
86
TIONAL CHURCHES OF NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK,
JUNE 30th, 1878.
FINANCIAL.
CO
o
a;
O
■^
o
o
c
5
Q
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CO
s
General Religious
and Benevolent
Societies.
■
1
0
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3
00
f— I
NOTES.
No..
No..
Yes.
Yes
i
Ypc-
1368 00
575 00
28
10
79
50
7 50
1404 29
885 50
C Have yiaitl ofl' debt on parson-
age and are making effort to
( become self-sustaining.
1 Acre and lialf of land purchased
■< and parsonage t(j be built
( shortly.
YCH
No..
Yes.
700 00
882 09
120 00
18 00
40 41
15 00
733 00
928 00
120 00
Faulting church edifice.
{ Continued depression in busi-
< ness i." seriously felt by the
( Church.
Yes.
5
50
No
200 00
150 00
562 6!)
60 00
220 00
50 00
322 00
700 00
15 00
215 00
150 00
784 08
60 00
240 00
54 90
337 05
873 00
j Church property held in trust
) for the body.
No..
No..
199
82
7
57
14 00
( Chirrch chandeliers bought and
\ parsonage repainted.
20
4
15
80
00
90
05
00
/^Trust deed to be drawn U]i in
which, clause will be inserted,
- whereby property will revest
No..
Yes.
1 to Congregational Union if
V not used for Cong, worship.
No
f Old puliiit rebuilt, also new
\ organ purchased.
( Church newly furnished with
A lamps. Ladies' Brancli Mis-
( sion organized.
No..
13
00
80 00
Yes.
3350 00
3250 00
150
480
00
00
110 00
200 00
3610 00
4080 00
Ye6.
150
00
Church painted, re-earpeted, &e.
12509 78
1029
47
176 O7I444 50 14174 82
THIRTY-NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT
— OF —
THE COIGREGATIOML COLLEGE
— OF —
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
PRESENTED AT THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CORPORATION, HELD AT LONDON,
Ont., JUNE THE 7th, 1878.
Iform of a gcquest.
I give and bequeath to the Treasurer for the time being of the
Congregational College of British JNorth America, a body corporate
by Act of Parliament of the Province of Canada, A.D. 1864, the sum
of _ [Either without designation, or
'' to he added to the Endowment Fund of said College,"] out of my
estate, without any charge or deduction whatever, to be paid with all
convenient speed after ray decease; and I direct that the receipt for
the said sum of the Treasurer for the time being of the said College
shall be a sufficient and valid discharge of said legacy.
N.B. — The Act of Incorporation contains the following clause : —
'' No bequest in favour of said Corporation shall he valid unless mad(i
at least six months before the death of the person making the same, "
O DF" P^ T O Ej X=L S
OF THE
CO-NGREGATIOISIAL COLLEGE,
1878-79.
CHAIRMAN.
THE REV. JOHN FREDERIC STEVENSON, LL.B.
TREASURER.
MR. R. C. JAMIESON.
SECRETARY.
THE REV. GEORGE CORNISH, M.A., LL.D.
DIRECTORS.
THE REV. DR. WILKES,
A. DUFF,
PROF. FENWICK,
WM. WILLIAMS,
W. H. ALLWORTH,
S. N. JACKSON,
ALEX. McGregor,
A. J. BRAY,
R. K. BLACK.
MESSRS. C. ALEXANDER,
HENRY LYMAN,
MESSRS. HENRY VENNOR,
C. R. BLACK,
THEO. LYMAN,
J. S. McLACHLAN,
W. R. ROSS,
THOS. ROBERTSON,
H. K. RITCHIE,
GEORGE HAGUE,
W. M. MOONEY,
BENJ. LYMAN.
PRINCIPAL.
THE REV. HENRY WILKES, D.D. LL.D.
VICE-PRINCIPAL.
THE REV. PROFESSOR FENWICK.
PROFESSORS AND LECTURERS.
THE REV. DR. WILKES,
Systematic Theology, Homiletics, Pastoral Theology and Church History.
THE REV. G. CORNISH, M.A., LL.D.,
Professor Emeritus of Greek Testament Exegesis.
THE REV. K. M. FENWICK,
Church History and Apologetics.
THE REV. J. F, STEVENSON, LL.B.,
Greek Testament Exegesis.
AUDITORS.
Messrs. J. B. LEARMONT and ROBERT MILLS.
COURSE OF STUDI.
I. COURSE OF STUDY.
According to the Eegailations of the College, the Full Course of
Study extends over five Sessions, and is divided into a Literary
Course of two Sessions, and a Theological Course of three Sessions.
Candidates for admission to the Full Course must be prepared to pass
the Matriculation Examination of tlie McGill University, in the
following subjects : —
Classics, Mathematics, and English.
In Classics. — Latin Grammar, Greek Grammar, and one easy Latin and one
easy Greek author. The authors recommendei are : — Caesar; Sallust ; Virgil
(iEneid B. L) ; Xenophon (xlnabasis B. T ) ; Homer (Iliad B. L).
In Mathemaiics. — Arithmetic; Algebra, to simple Equations, inclusive;
Euclid's Elements, Books I., IL and III.
In English. — Writing from dictation. English Composition. A paper on
English Grammar.
For the literary and scientific subjects of the Full Course, the
students attend the classes of the Facultj' of Arts in McGill College,
according to the terms of aflHliation with the University, in which
Faculty the Full Course extends over four years, and leads to Ihe
degree of B A. But in the Third and Fourth Years, Theological
Students are allowed exemption from attendance on certain classes,
sh(juld they desire it. Thus the studies of the Third and Fourth
Years of the Full Course are jjrosecuted simultaneously in the Faculty
of Theology and in the Faculty of Arts, The work of the Fifth Year
is confined to the Faculty of Theology.
The following is the course of study in the University which
students in Theology must pass through in order to obtain the degree
ofB.A.:—
First Year. — Classics; French or German or Hebrew; English Literature;
Pure Mathematics ; History; Elementary Chemistry.
Second Year. — Classics ; French or German or Hebrew; English Literature;
Pure Mathematics ; Botany.
1 Mr d Year. — Classics; English Literature; Mental and Moral Philosophy;
Mixed Mathematics ; Zoology.
Fourth Year. — Classics; Mental and Moral Philosophy; Mixed Mathematics;
Mineralogy and Geology.
The Theological Course proper begins with the Third Year of
the Full Course and extends over three full Sessions. It embraces
the following subjects: — (1) Sj'stematic Theology; (2) Historical
Theology; (2) Pastoral Theology ; (4) Homiletics; (5) Greek Tes-
tament Exegesis ; (6) Church History; (7) Evidences and Biblical
Literature.
In both departments, the Session begins at the middle of Sep-
tember; and examinations are held at Christmas and at the end of
the Session in the several subjects of the year. Students must pass
BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS, 89
these examintitions as a condition of maintaining their proper status.
Candidates who are admitted to the Theological course proper
("Shorter "), in accordance with Sec. 3, Chap. IV. of the Eegulations,
are required to attend such classes in McGill College as the Faculty
of Theology may deem expedient, and also to pass the examinations
of such classes.
II. BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
CHAPTER I.
OF THE CORPORATION.
1 . The Corporation is called " The Congregational College of British
North America."
2. Its object is to educate Ministers for the Congregational Churches of
Canada and the other Provinces of British North America.
3. All who contribute one dollar annually to the funds of the College are
members of the Corporation, and entitled to a voice in the management of its
affairs.
4. A Regular Meeting of the Corporation is held annually, for the recep-
tion of the Report of the retiring Directors, the election of a new Board, and
the transaction of other necessarj' business.
5. The Annual Meeting is lield at the same time and place as that of the
Congregational Union of Canada.
6. Special Meetings of the Corporation may be held for the transaction
of special business, on a requisition to that effect to the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, signed by. at least, twenty members of the Corporation. Provided
always, that no such Special Meeting be held without two months' public
notice thereof, signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Board of Directors,
CHAPTER n.
OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
1. The Board of Directors is elected from members of the Corporation,
and consists of a Chairman, Treasurer, one or more Secretaries, and not less
than fifteen and not more than twenty other members, who hold office for one
year, but are eligible for re-election.
2. Five members of the Board form a quorum.
;-). The functions and duties of the Board are : — The oversight and man-
agement of the affairs of the College during their year of office ; and, on the
expiration of the same, to present a report of their proceedings, as well as of
the general condition of the College, to the Corporation at its Annual Regular
Meeting, or at such other times as the Corporation may require.
4. The proceedings of the Board of Directors are subject to the sanction
uf the Corporation, and are regulated by By-Laws, which may be enacted,
amended or repealed at any Annual Meeting.
5. Vacancies in the Board, whether occurring by death or resignation,
may be filled by the Board, as soon after their occurrence as it may see fit;
provided always, that no such appointments be made without a vote of, at
least, a majority of the members of the Board,
90 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
CHAPTER III.
OF THE PROFESSORS.
1. The Professors receive their appointment from the Corporation : or, in
exceptional cases, from the Board of Directors, subject to the approval of the
Corporation.
2. Their duties and their salaries are determined by such regulations as
the Corporation may from time to time ordain in that behalf.
3. The Professors constitute a Faculty of Theology, and, as such, are
entrusted with the educational department of the College, subject to the sanc-
tion and control of the Board of Directors.
4. In cases of discipline, the Faculty may admonish or reprimand a
Student, or prohibit his attendance on the classes, preliminary to reporting
him to the Board to be further dealt with.
5. The Faculty are required to make regular reports of their proceedings
to the Board.
CHAPTER IV.
OF CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSIOn.
1. Every Candidate for admission into the College must present to the
Directors the testimony of the Church of which he is a member, respecting
his piety and apparent suitableness to the work of the Ministiy, together with
a written statement of the grounds of his own conviction that he is called of
God to that work, and of his views of Christian doctrine and Church govern-
ment.
2. Candidates for admission to the Full Couise must be prepared to pass
the Matriculation Examination in the McGill University.
3. Candidates who are graduates of any University, or who can satisfy
the Board that they are otherwise possessed of sufficient acquirements, may
be at onci> admitted to the Theological Course: also, as exceptional cases,
such candidates maj^ be admitted to that Course as it may be expedient, in the
judgment of the Directors, to train as preachers, without the ordinary literary
culture.
4. Approved Candidates are received on a probation of four months, at
the close of which, if the result of their probation be satisfactory, they are
admitted to the Full Course.
CHAPTER V.
OF THE STUDENTS.
1. Students are during their Literary Course under the general supervi-
sion of the Theological Professors, and take such subjects in the Theological
Department as the Board may direct.
2. The Students, both in the Literary and Theological Department, are
required to attend exclusively to the studies approved by the Board.
3. Every Student on his admission into the College, is required to sign a
declaration of obedience and consent to the By-Laws and Regulations of the
College.
4. Students are allowed to live with such families only as are approved
by the Board of Directors. Change of abode must be promptly notified to the
Secretary of the College.
5. Attendance upon the classes in the College and the use of the Library
is allowed without charge to the Students. Aid may also be granted to them
from its funds to meet the expense of Board; — the amount of such aid to be
fixed at the be2;inning of each Session.
BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 91
6. As a part of their preparation for their future work, the Students,
under the sanction of the Directors, preach the Gospel, as they have the
opportunity.
7. Every Student when admitted into the College on the expiration of
the term of his probation, is required to procure a formal dismissal from the
Church to which he formerly belonged, and, without delay, to obtain admis-
sion into a Congregational Church in the place in which the College may be.
Such dismissal and admission riiust be reported by him to the Board. Fur-
thermore, he is expected to be as regular as possible in his attendance upon
the services, ordinances and church-meetings of the Church to which he be-
longs during his College course.
8. Students are not allowed, during their College coui'se,to enter into the
marriage relationship, without the knowledge and consent of the Board of
Directors.
9. Students who leave College without obtaining the official sanction and
discharge of the Board, are required to refund to the College the amount ex-
pended by it for their education.
10. Churches who desire the services of Students with the view of per-
manent settlement in the Pastorate, or otherwise, are requested to commu-
nicate with the Board, through the Secretary.
CHAPTER VI.
OF THE COURSE OF STUDY AND EXAMINATION.
The Full Course of study extends over five Sessions, and is divided
L/iterary Course of two Sessions, and a Theological Course of three
1.
into a L
Sessions
2. In the Theological Department, the course of study includes the Ori-
ginal Languages of the Scriptures, Biblical Literature, Systematic and Pastoral
Theology, Church History, Homiletics, and Exegesis of the Greek Testament,
with such other accessory subjects as the Board of Directors may from time
to time appoint.
3. In the Theological Course, the Students are examined at the close of
each Session, in all the subjects of the year. The examinations are conducted
by Examiners (among whom the Theological Professors are included) chosen
by the Board of Directors, and by means of printed questions and written
answers to the same. Those who pass are arranged according to their pro-
ficiency, as 1st Class, 2nd Class, and 3rd Class. If a Student fail to pass in
any subject, he is required to undergo a Supplementally Examination in the
same. The results of these Sessional Examinations are recorded by the Board,
and reported to the Corporation at the Annual Meeting.
4. The Session of the Theological Department begins on the second
Wednesday in September, and ends on the second Wednesday in April.
5. The Professors are at liberty to hold, during the Session, such Class
Examinations as they may deem necessary, either in tlie manner aforesaid or
orally.
6. In the Literary Course, Students are required to pass such examina-
tions as may be appointed by the Faculty of Arts of the McGill University.
The Board of Directors are required to obtain from the said Faculty ol Arts a
report of the Examinations ol the Students in the several subjects thereof, and
also of their attendance and conduct during the Session in the University, and
to present the same at the Annual Meeting of the Corporation.
92 BY-LAWP AND REGULATIONS.
CHAPTER VII.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
1. In reference to matters not provided for in the foregoing By-Laws, the
Directors may act according to their discretion, subject always to the approval
of the Corporation at any Regular Meeting.
2. Alterations may be made in the By-laws and Regulations, or new
ones added, by any Annual Regular Meeting of the Corporation, provided
that notice of such alterations or additions has been given at the meeting next
preceding.
LIST OF ALUMNI. 93
III. LIST OF ALUMNI.
Name. Whence. Date of Leaving. Where.
1. Ludwick Ki'ibb Eramoga 1S41 United States.
•2. Stejihen King Glanfurd 1S42 Hamilton.
3. Leonard McGlashan Pelham 1S42 Died.
4. Samuel Finton Glanford 1842 Presbyterian Church.
5. James Vincent .Coventry, England 1842 Franklin, Mich.
6. Edward Ebbs G^ielph 1843
7. William Lumsdeu Petcrhorough 1843 Episcopal Church
S. Wra. F. Clarke London, Ont 1844 |
9. Thomas 1 Hodgskin Guelph 1845 Episcopal Church.
10. Robert Robinson Montreal, Zion 1845 Wiarton, Ont.
11. John Bowles Montreal, Zion. 1846 DiMl:
12. Norman McLeod L'Original 1844 Salt Lake City.
13. W. H. Allworth Southwold 1845 Parts, Ont.
14. Thomas Snell New York State . 1846 Died.
15. Thomas Searight Toronto, Zion 1847
16. Tliomas Bayne Montreal, 2nd Church 1846 Columbus, Neb.
17. George C. Wickson Toronto, Zion 1S47
18. Wm Hay Wartuick 1847 Scotland, Ont.
19. Henry Lancashire Montreal, Zio n 1847 Neiv Preston, Conn.
20. K. M. Penwick Montreal, 3nd Ckurch 1847 CongregatioimlColl, Montreal
21. Charles McKay Montreal, 3nd Church 1846 Died.
22. John C. Geikie Moore 1848 Episcopal Church.
23. P. H. Marling Toronto, Zion 1848 Presbyterian Church, U.S.
24. A, Wickson, LiL.D Toronto, Zion 1848 London, England.
25. John Wood Montreal, Zion 1851 Ottawa.
26. John McKillican Vankleek Hill 1851 Canada, S. S. Union.
27. John Praser Stanstead 1851 West Derby, Ft.
28. Robert K. Black St. John, N.B 1852 Granhy, Qm.
29 . George Ritchie St. John, N.B 1852 StellapoUs, la.
30. Daniel Macallum St. Andreiu's, Que 1852 Athol, Ont.
31. James Hay Warwick 1852 Georgia, Vt.
32. E.A. Noble Hamilton 1852
33. Enoch Barker Sheffield, N.B t853 Milton, N. S.
34. Arcliiliald Burpee Sheffield, N.B 1854 Died.
35' Joju Camiiljell IndianLands 1855 WestArran.
36. James Boyd Montreal, Zion 1856
37. Philip Shanks Beouhavnois 1856 Died.
38. Malcolm McKillop : . . .Inverness 1858 Died.
39. Robert G. Baird Lanark 1857 Lansing, Mich.
40. A. McDonald Montreal, 2nd Church 1857
41. Robert Hay Scotland, Ont 1858 Forest, Ont.
42. George A. Rawson Lanark 1859 Hamilton, N. Y.
43. Joseph V. Bryning Scotland. Unt 1 860 Kansas.
44. Jolm R. Kean Inverness, Que 1860 Presbyterian Church.
45. Robert Burchill Toronto, Zion 1861
46. Robert Brown Caledon 1861 Middleville, Ont.
47. John Brown Caledon 1861 Lanark Village, Ont.
48. Benjamin W. Day Brantford .• 1861 Cowansville, Que.
49. George Strasenburgh Kingston 1861 Bushville, N. Y.
50. John G. Sanderson Kingston 1862 Edgar, Ont
51. J. Malcolm Smith Scotland, Ont 1862 Cedar Springs, Mich.
52. Charles DuBF Toronto, Bond Street 1862 Speedside, Ont.
53. Alex. McGregor Manilla, 1862 Yarmouth, N. S.
54. Richard Lewis Sarnia 1862 Ludington, Mich.
65. James Douglass Toronto, Bond Street 1865 Presbyterian Church.
56. J. A. R. Dickson Brantford 1865 Toronto Northern.
57. Richard T. Thomas Toronto, Zion 1865 London, England.
58. Samuel N. Jackson, M. D. . . Urome 1866 Kingston, Ont.
59. Elisha Styles Lyman, B.C.ljMord real, Zion 1866
60. John I. Hindley, M. A ..... . Kramoso, 1869 Owen Sound.
61. William M. Peacock Lanark 1S69 Kingston, Ont.
62. Duncan McGregor, M. A . . . Mn_n ilia 1872 Liverpool, N. S.
63. Robert W. Wallace, M.\ Markham 1872 London, Ontario.
64. W. H. A. Claris Frome, Ont " 1872 Sarnia, Ontario.
65. Daniel D. Nighswander Stouffville 1872 JUpd.
66. John Allworth, M.A VVri's 1S73 Vlir,,, M!r]i.
67. Joseph Griffltli Jamesville. NY 1873 Cimihi.n,, iint.
68. Edwin D. Silcox Southwold 1873 S/unirrU'r, (int.
69. William Mclntosli Ihighy 1874 .MrlUnnrin', i/uc
70. James R. Black, B. A Montreal, Zion 1875 N/. (■ntlKninrs, Ont.
71. Andrew O. Cossar London. Ont 1876 JJrltrriitr, (Jut.
72- John B. Sih^ox ..Fmnir. (Inl 1876 Torontu, Wrsl.
73. John P. Malcolm N,,,;/,,,,,/, o,,/ 1877 ll'hifhy, Ont.
74. Jacob W. Cox, B. A ( 'nm milii^, N.S 1877 Lower Selma, N.S.
75. Hugli Pedley, B. A c 'nld Springs Ont 1877 Cnhourg, Ont.
76. W . H. Warriner, B. A Northern, Toronto 1878 YorkviUc.
77. Arch. P. McGregor, B. A Manilla 1878 Listotvel.
78. George Willett Scotland, Ont 1878 Vankleek Hill.
79. Jas. C. Wright Howick, Ont 1878 Franklin,
H
94 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE ANNtJAL MEETING.
IV. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING,
1878.
The Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Corporation of the
Congregational College op British North America was held in
the Congregational Church, London, on Friday, June Yth, 1878.
On motion, Wm Edgar, Esq., was appointed Chairman; and
Eev. Hugh Pedley, B.A.., Minute-Secretary.
Prayer was offered by Rev. E. Mackay.
(1) Eeading of the Eeport for the Session 1877-78, with the
Treasurer's Statement, and Eeport of the Endowment Fund.
(2) Moved by Dr. Cornish; seconded by Eev. Thos. Hall, of
Newfoundland ; and
Reaolved: — That the Annual Eeport now read be received; and that the
following gentlemen be the Board of Directors for the ensuing year : —
Chairman — Eev. J. F. Stevenson, LL.B. Treasurer — Mr. E. C.
Jamieson. Secretary — Eev. George Cornish, LL.D. Directors — Eevs.
Henry Wilkes, D.i)., LL.D., Prof Fenwick, A. Dufi; E. K. Black,
William Williams, W. H. AUworth, S. N. JacL-cson, M.D., A. McGrregor,
A. J. Braj^; Messrs. C. Alexander, Henry Lyman, W. M. Mooney,
H Yennor, C. E. Black, Theodore Lyman, Benjamin Lyman, J, S.
McLachlan, W. E. Eoss, Thos. Eobertson, H. K. Eitchie, and George
Hague. And that Messrs. J. B. Learmont and Eobert Mills be
requested to audit the accounts of the Treasurer.
(3) Moved by Dr. Wilkes; seconded by Eev. J. B. Silcox; and
Resolved: — That this Corporation, appreciating the value of the profes-
sorial and other services rendered to the College by Rev. Professor Fenwick,
and desiring to express its increased confidence in him, do cordially concur in
the recommendation of the Board that he be appointed Vice-Principal of the
College, and do liereby so appoint him. And, further, recognizing the
inadequacy of the stipend at present paid to Professor Fenwick, it instructs
and authorises the Board of Directors to make such addition thereto as in
their judgment the funds at their disposal may warrant.
(4) At the request of the Chairman, Dr. Jackson offered prayer
for the new Vice-Principal.
Prof. Fenwick in accepting this appointment, expressed his
thanks to the Corporation for this further mark of confidence in him.
(4) Moved by Eev. W. H. Allworth ; seconded by Eev. E. D.
Wilcox; and
Besolved: — That this Meeting desires to record its grateful satisfaction at
ftlie in^j'eased number of students now attending the College, and would once
jnore jesjpiectfully, but earnestly, enforce upon tiie attention of all the Churches
their dutyito make greater efforts to provide adequate means for its eificient
aiiamtaineuce. In this connection, also, it desires to thank the Colonial Mis-
:sionary Society lojf the timely financial aid again rendered by it during the
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(5) Moved by Dr. Jackson ; seconded by Eev. R. Brown ; —
That the changes in the matter of granting pecuniary aid to students of
the College recommended by the late Board be adopted, and that the Board
now elected be requested and authorised to carry the same into effect, and to
report thereon to the next Annual Meeting.
(6)Moved in amendment by Kev. J. R. Black; seconded by Rev.
W. H. A. Claris;
That this matter be referred back for further consideration to
the Board of Directors.
(7) On a division the amendment was lost, and there being no
fm'ther amendment offered, the original motion was carried.
(8) Moved by Rev. J. Wood; seconded by ;
and
Resolved: — That the Corporation has heard with much gratification the
commiiuication from the friends of Calvary Church, and gratefully accept
their generous gift of the Calvary Church Medal on the terms and conditions
specified ; and records its high appreciation of the enlightened interest thus
manifested by the donors in the important work of this Institution. Further,
that the Secretary be, and hereby is authorised to receive on behalf of the
College from the donors the dies of the said Medal, and such copies of the same
as may be offered for competition at the close of this and other sessions ; and,
further, that the details of the course of study and of the examinations for the
said Medal be referred to the Faculty, with instructions to report thereon to
the Board of Directors.
(9) Moved by Rev. R. K. Black ; seconded by Rev. R. Brown ;
and
Resolved: — That the Report as a whole be adopted and printed.
(10) Dr. Wilkes laid before the meeting the present state of the
Endowment Fund.
(11) On motion, the above minutes were taken as read and
confirmed.
Alter prayer by Rev. John Allworth, the meeting adjourned.
WM. EDGAR,
Chairman,
V. KEPOPvT FOR SESSIOK 1877-78.
Your Board have much pleasure in reporting that the past
Session of which they have now to give an account was characterized
by steady and unbroken work on the part of both Professors and
Students.
The Session was opened at the appointed time, and with the
usual public service, in Zion Church, at which the Rev. S. IST. Jack-
son, M.D., delivered the opening address. The closing service wa«.
held in the same Church, o'n Thursday, April 11th, and the address.
96 REPORT OF SESSION.
was delivered by the Eev. A. J, Bray. The thanks of the College
are due to both these geatlemen for this valuable service so cheerfully
rendered by them.
Your Board ai'e happy in being able to report a largely increased
number of candidates for admission during the past Session; there
being no less than seven, of whom six have been received as students
of the College. Of these, one carae from Newfoundland; one from
Nova Scotia ; four from Ontario; and one from Quebec. The Ses-
sional Eoll contained the names of sixteen Students in attendance, as
follows: —
(1) William H. Warriner, B.A., Full Course, 5th year.
2) Archibald F. McGregor, B.A., Full Course, 5th year.
(3) Charles H. Fedley, Full Course, 4th year.
(4) Allan L. McFadyen, Full Course, 4th year.
(5) William Bwing, Full Course, 4th year.
(6) Eobert Eadie, Full Couriie. 3rd year.
(7) George Willett, Theological Course, 3rd year.
(8) James C. Wright, Theological Course, 3rd year.
(9) Alexander H. Mclntyre, Full Cours^e, 2nd year.
(10) Charles H. Black, Full Course, Isi year.
(11) J. B. Saer, Theological Course, 1st year.
(12) George i^obertson. Full Course, 1st year.
(13) Gregory J. Powell, Full Course, 1st 3-ear.
(14) Henry D. Grieve, Theological Course, 1st j^ear.
(15) Alvan McLeod, Full Course, 1st year.
(16) James E. Eichards, Theological Course, Preliminary.
From the above list it will be seen that two students were grad-
uates of the University, and nine were undergraduates. Of these
latter, Messrs. Pedley, McFadyen and Ewing passed for the degree
of B.A., at the Sessional Examinations, at the University in April,
at which Mr. Pedley also won First Rank Honours in Mental and
Moral Philosophy.
At the beginning of the session, Mr. Eadie won one of the
Scholarships in Classics and Modern Languages, of the value of $125
per annum and tenable for two years. At the Sessional Examina-
tions in the Faculty of Theology, Mr. Warriner, in the Competitive
Examination for the same, was awarded the Calvary Church Silver
Medal in Church History, t
Messrs. Warriner, McGregor, Willett, and Wright have com-
pleted their course, and have left the College with the best wishes
of your Board for their future usefulness, happiness, and success, to
enter upon spheres of labour in different parts of the Provinces of
, Quebec and Ontario.
It is also mntter for thankfulness, that the work in the Theolo-
gical Department was prosecuted throughout the session without
intermission arising from ill health or any other cause. The thanks
of the College are again due to the esteemed Chairman of the Board
for his services gratuitously rendered in conducting the class in
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9Y
Greek Testament Exegesis. Thanks are also due to Principal Daw-
son fur the permission extended to the students of this College to
attend a series of lectuies delivei-ed by him on Egypt and Sinai to
the Theological Schools in Montreal. Grateful mention should also
be made of the fact that two of the Senior students cheerfully gave
lessons in Greek to the First Year Theological Students ; — a pi-actice
which if continued will be a valunble aid in enabling these students
to read the Greek Testament.
The following Reports show the amount and character of the
work done in the several classes in the Department of Theology.
(1) Dr. Wilkes reports : —
I have to report the attendance of ten Students, forming the ge:eral
Theological class, to whom were delivered fort3'-two lectures on Systematic
Theology, eleven on Homiletics, thirteen on Pastoral Theology, twenty-two
on New Testament Introduction ; and to the four Seniors, eigf t lectures on
the Pentateuch. Their attendance has been remarkably regular and their con-
duct all that could be desired. During the first half of the Session I con-
ducted the class in Homiletic exercises. Professor Fenwick presided in this
class the last half A statement was sent to the Board of the result of the
Christmas Examinations ; herewith is the report of the Sessional, signed by
Rev. A. J. Bray and myself.
(2) Professor Fenwick reports : —
In the Ordinary Classes the following lectures have been delivered in my
department: — I. Church History. 28 lectnves. From the death ofHildebrand
to the death of Arnold of Brescia ; and the German Reformation, from its rise,
to the J jeipsic Disputation. II. Historical Theology, 24 lectures. The dogma
of the Formative Theologians — the Church and Sacraments of the Ante-Nicene
period — the historical development of the Ante-Nicene Trinitarian dogma, and
the Precursors of Arius. III. Aj)olo[/etics, 40 lectures. Internal Evidence —
personalit}^ of God — testimony of the Bible to Christ, the intrinsic evidence of
Christ's personality — and the relation of Christianity to Ethnic thought.
In the Extra Classes the following subjects have been taught. Senior
Students, a course of 17 lectures on Old Testament Economy ; embracing Self-
revelation of God — the Sabbath — Sacrifice and the coveiYant, in their dispen-
sational phases. Historical Theology, 22 lectures. Heretical apprehensions
of the Trinity — Arius — the Council of Nice from a dogmatic standpoint.
Athanasius and the Arians of the fourth century. In all I have delivered 131
lectures during the Session. Junior Students — Twice every week they have
met for instruction in the Hebrew language. I have merely to add my
testimony, to the faithful application of the students to their work — to their
satisfactory progress, and to their uniform propriety of conduct.
(3) Mr. Stevenson reports: —
In the class for Greek Testament Exegesis I have read with the students
parts of the Gospel according to St. Mark. The studies of the Session have
been profitable and satisfactor}\ While some students have done remarkably
well, others have shown less aptitude for critical inquiries, but all have
manifested a praiseworthy diligence. Rev. G. H. Wells kindly assisted me as
examiner, by the request of the Board, and he bears emphatic testimony to
the care and industry of our Students. I may add that the demeanor of the
class towards the tutor is uniformly respectfully and appreciative.
The usual examinations were held at Christmas and at the close
of the Session, at which latter the Revs. A. J. Bray, R. K. Black, and
G. H. Wells, kindly acted as associate-examiners with the Principal,
98 REPORT OF SESSION.
Prof. Fenwick, and Mr. Stevenson, respectively'^, for which service
the thanks of the Corporation are due to these gentlemen. The
results of the examinations are given in xlppendlx.
Professor Fenwick during the summer vacation again visited
certain churches on behalf of the College. In his Eeport to the
Board, he stated that he had, in all, preached fifteen college sermons,
at fifteen different places, mostly on the Lord's Day ; and that
addresses on week-days had been delivered at twelve places. Judg-
ing from the Congregations present at these services, it is manifest
that much interest in the work of the College was awakened by them.
The pecuniciry results of the visitation were, considering the season
of the year and the depressed state of trade, satisfactorj'. Your
Board returned a special vote of cordial thanks and of appreciation
to Professor Fenwick for this valuable service ; which action you
will doubtless cordially su.-.tain.
The thanks of the College are also due to the Eev. R. K. Black
for similar services rendered to the College by him, at the request of
your Board, among the churches of J^ova Scotia and New Brunswick,
whereby large Interest was awakened in the work of the College and
Its claims were recognized by liberal contributions. It Is likewise
worthy of note that a substantial contribution has been received from
the church at St. John's, Newfoundland. The importance of a
periodic and systematic visitation of these churches on behalf of the
College should not be lost sight of.
At the last Annual Meeting, the following resolution was passed
and remitted to your Board for consideration and report : —
Resolved : — That this Corporation request the Board of Directors to con-
sider the advisability of a gradual reduction of the amount appropriated for
Students' board, with a view to their ultimate self-suioport ; and that the
Board do report thereon at the next Annual Meeting.
Your Board have to report, that a Committee consisting of the
Principal, Prof Fenwick and Eev. S. N. Jackson, M.D., was appointed
to consider and report on the above resolution. The Committee
reported that they had considered the matter in its several bearings ;
and had concluded to recommend the discontinuanceof the present plan
of granting pecuniary assistance to the students, and the adoption of
another which Is considered not to be open to many of the objections
at present felt. The reasons submitted for this recommendation
were : — (I) College funds should not be so appropriated as necessarily
to raise a question of finance when suitable applicants for admission
present themselves. (2) Though the nominal character of the
present method confines the granting of pecuniary aid to such as
absolutely need it, the practical working is found to be that all,
whether very needful or not, reckon upon it as a provision made for
all students, and thei'cfore one to which each has a claim. [3] It is
known that some of the liberal supporters of the College have
objections to the existing arrangement, on the ground that it tends
to diminish self-reliance in the students, many of whom would
REPORT OF SESSION.
99
struggle through their college course, and that to their own
advantage and better developeraent, without such aid. And, further,
that it is an unfavorable departure from the general practice of
Colleges and Medical and Theological and other Professional Schools
on this continent. To provide for cases wherein pecuniary aid would
be essentially necessary to enable students to go through their college
course, the Committee recommended the institution of a Board of
Eursaries, distinct from the Board of Directors, to which should be
committed the entire charge of this matter. Such a Board could
receive money for Bursaries from Churches or individuals, who chose
in this manner to aid particular students, or to aid generally, and
from any other quarter. In some instances competitive preliminary
examinations might be introduced. In short, without iiiterfering
with the maintenance of the income proper of the College, the Board
of Bursaries would be entitled to ask for contributions from such
quarters as they might deem expedient. In summing up their
-Report, the Committee recommended that the Board of Directors be
relieved of the duty of providing pecuniary aid for students. That
such students as may require aid bo referred to the Board of
Bursal ies, whose duty it will be to consider each case on its own
merits, ascertain the amount of compensation for services rendered
by students to the Missionar}^ Society, or othei-wise, during Iheir
vacation, and to adopt such methods as it may find necessary for
maintaining the fund it will have to administer. The Committee,
further reported and submitted a large correspondence which they had
had with divers colleges and officials engaged in the conduct of such
Institutions and which they had found of great service in making their
Eeport; whereupon, your Board resolved : — " That the Eeport now
presented be received and adopted ; and that it be a recommendation
to the Corporation at its next Annual Meeting to adopt the changes
therein recommended."
The importance of this matter, as well as your instructions
thereupon, is a sufficient justification for the fulness with which it
has been here referred to, and it is commended to the serious atten-
tion of all concerned therein.
It is the pleasing dutj^ of your Board next to report the founda-
tion of the first medal held by this College ; and as the matter is not
only novel in character, but also worthy of imitation by others, and
of sufficient importance in itself to be thus recorded, your Board
give Ml extenso the document forwarded to them by the Donors.
To the Board of Directors oj the Congregational College of B. N. A. : —
Gentlemen, — Certain memberiH of Calvary Church, Montreal, desirous of
commemorating the organization of that church, and the erection of its present
church-edifice, and at tiie same time wishing to manifest the interest they feel
in the efficiency and prosperity of an institution to which the Churches of the
Congi-egational name are largely indebted, have resolved to found and to
present to the Congregational College of B. N. A. a silver medal, to be com-
peted for by the students of the same. And although a sufficient sum has not
yet been raised for the endowment of the medal, the donors pledge themselves
100 RErOKT OF SESSION.
to secure this sum as soon as practicable. As an earnest, however, of their
desire and intention to give effect to their resolve, they have secured the execu-
tion of the dies for the medal, which they are prepared to hand over to j'ou to
hold and possess for the College, on their receiving official notification of your
acceptance of their offer, and on the conditions hereinafter set forth.
Furthermore, the donors undertake from this time forth, and until such
time as the Medal Endowment Fund shall be completed, to provide at their
own charges and to place in your hands, annually, a copy ot the medal for
annual competition. They respectfully submit the following as the terms and
conditions on which they desire to present the said medal to the college : —
1. The medal is founded by Calvary Congregational Church, Montreal.
2. It shall bear the name of" The Calvary Church Medal."
.S. The medal shall be of silver, and shall bear on the one side, the arms
or corporate seal of the College, and on the other, a representation of the
present church-edifice of Calvary Church, with the inscription, " Calvarj^
Congregational Church, Montreal, organized 1874. "
4. The object of the medal £hall be the study of Church History in the
Theological Course of the College.
5. The medal shall be annually offered for competition at the Sessional
Examinations in the Theological department to students completing their
college course at the said examinations.
6. The course ot study and the subjects ot examination for the medal
shall be in Church History, and shall be such as the Faculty of Theology,
subject to the approval of the Board of Directors, shall from time to time
appoint.
7. The examiners for the medal shall be chosen by the Board of
(Directors.
8. The medal shall be awarded for absolute merit or excellence in
answering, and to the student whom the faculty, on the report of the exam-
iners, shall recommend to the Board of Directors as the successful competitor.
On behalf of the donors : —
[Signed] J. REDPATH DOUGALL,
Sec. Calvary Church.
Montreal, December 21st, 1877.
Yonr Board also submit the Eesolution adopted in response to
the above, with the recommendation that it be adopted by the Cor-
poration, substituting the word " Corporation" for the word " Board "
m the original.
Resolved: — That the Corporation has heard with much gratification the
communication from the friends of Calvary Church, and gratefully accept
their generous gift of the Calvary Church Medal on the terms and conditions
specified; and records its high appreciation of the enlightened interest thus
manifested by the donors in the important work of this Institution. Further,
that the Secretary be, and hereby is, authorized to receive on behalf of the
College from the donors the dies of the said Medal, and such copies of the
same as may be offered for competition at the close of this and other sessions ;
and, further, that the details of the course of study and of the examinations
for the said Medal be referred to the Faculty, with instructions to report
thereon to the Board of Directors.
Herewith is also submitted a copj^ of a device for the corporate
seal of the College, and it is recommended that the same be adopted
£is the corporate seal of this Corporation,
KErORT OF SESSION. 101
Your Board have further to report, that they have carefully
considered the question of recommending- that the Hev. Professor
f^enwiek be appointed Vice-Principal of the College. This important
matter was not taken up until after full conference with the honoured
Principal thereupon had been held, and it had been ascertained that
such a proposal met with his hearty approval. It is proper that the
grounds for recommending this appointment should be stated to you,
which are : — [1] That while the Principal is fully competent for the
tutoi'ial and administrative duties appertaining to his office, yet his
physical inability to move freely about from place to place, visiting-
churches or attending meetings in his official capacity, prevents his
doing what he wishes to do for the College in this way, and renders
it necessary to devolve this work upon some other person. [2J
That Professor Fenwick has, at the request of the Board, performed
this service with much advantage to the College, and acceptability to
the churches visited. [3J That whilst Professor Fenwick happily
enjoj^s the full confidence of the churches, it is yet desirable that he
should in discharging these and other public duties on behalf of the
College bo invested with such weight and representative character as
the College can give him. And [4] That the faithful and valuable
professorial services of Mr. Fenwick constitute a strong ground for
bestowing on him this further mark of the approval and confidence
of the Corporation. For these reasons, it is the unanimous recom-
mendation of your Board that Pi-ofessor FenAvick be appointed Yice-
Princij^al of the College.
The Eeport of the Treasurer is herewith submitted. It shows,
total Peceipts for the past Session, including |1, 27 1.37 from the
Colonial Missionary Society, and $600.00 interest from the Endow-
ment Fund, $4,567.85. The Disbursements, including the deficit of
$888.95 on account of 1876-77, have amounted to $5,316.04. Thus
your Board have again to regret to have to report the balance of
$748.19 on the wrong side of the account, and this notwithstanding
the strictest economy in the administration of the funds entrusted to
them. In this connection, it is proper that your attention should
be called to the inadequacy of the salary paid to Professor Fenwick
for his valuable seivices. Tour Board recommend that their suc-
cessors be authorized to take action in this matter.
The Report of the Treasurer of the Endowment Fund is also
herewith submitted. It shows that the receipts for the past jenr on
account of the Fund amount to $637.00; and, including expected
receipts on account of this year, that the aggregate receipts will
amount to $13,760.00.
All which is respectfuUj^ submitted by your Board.
GEORGE CORNISH, LL.D.,
Secretary.
Montreal, May 29th, 1878.
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CONTlilBUTlOJSrri FKOM THE CHUKCHES.
103
YIL CO^^TRIBUTIO^S FROM THE CHURCHES,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST MAT, 1878.
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.
AZtoix
Collection '. $3 20
Brantford.
Collection, &c fi 60
James Wilkes 5 00
Alfred J. Wilkes 4 00
J. &F.Ott 2 00
Thomas Robson 1 00
Henry Stroud 1 00
George Hardy 1 00
Levi Boughton 1 00
Ed. L. Goold 1 00
James Smith 1 00
Wm. Hellish 1 00
James Woodyatt 1 00
Joseph Jackson 1 00
Miss Davis 1 (50
Thos. Woodyatt 1 00
J. 0. Wisner & Son 1 00
$29 60
Belleville.
Collection (Prof. F.) $4 30
Caledon South.
Collection (Prof. F.) $1 56
Edgar.
Collection (Prof. P.) .$5 50
Embro.
Collection $10 00
Ei'amosa.
Collection $8 10
Forest and Warivick.
Collection $10 50
Frame.
Mrs. Wm. Silcox 4 00
John Silcox 3 00
Geo. Silcox 2 00
Rev. W. J. Cuthhertson 3 00
Mrs. Cuthbertson 2 00
Sums under $1 2 00
$16 00
Garafraxa.
Collection ' $9 25
Guelph.
Rev. W. Manchee $2 00
Mrs. Law 1 00
J. Hodgskin 8 00
C. Grundv 1 00
A. Worsley 2 00
J. W. Lyon 1 00
Miss Hodo'skin 1 00
W. H. Marcon 1 00
Robt. Mitchell 1 00
Anon I 00
W.Jones 1 00
R.Thompson 100
J. Crowe 2 00
Rev. J. Howell 100
J. Goldie 2 00
Sums under $1. 6 44
$32 44
Hamilton.
Collection $20 00
Hatvkesbury .
Collection (Prol. F.) $3 35
Indian Lands,
J. Kennedy 5 00
Rev. D. Macallnm 4 00
Niel McColl 1 00
D. A. McDougall 1 00
A. McEwen 1 00
Mrs. T. Munroe 1 00
D. Kennedy 1 00
J . McDermid 1 00
J. A. McEwen 150
A. McDougall 1 00
J. J. McEwen 150
T. McEwen 1 00
Small sums 1 00
Collection 50
$21 50
Kingston, First Church.
Collection (Prof. F.) 11 20
G. S. Fenwick 50 00
G. Robertson 50 00
Mrs. G. Robertson 50 00
" G. Robertson, Sr 50 00
" Thos. Hendry 25 00
Rev. Dr. Jackson 10 00
Mr. Breck 10 00
Fred. Osborn , 10 00
lOi
CONTRIBUTIONS FKOM THE CHUKCHES.
Mrs. S. N. Jackson $5 00
Thos.Hendry 5 00
Thos. Robertson 5 00
John McMillan 4 00
John Driver 2 00
Mr.Havward 2 00
J, H. McFarlane 2 00
P. R. Henderson 2 00
Wm. Osborn 2 00
Thos. Savage, Sr 2 00
Robert Hendry 2 00
John McEwen 2 00
Percy Clark 1 00
James Reid 1 00
Mr. Morham 1 00
Mrs. Waddingham 1 00
Miss Glassup 1 00
D. Spence 1 00
W. L. Richardson 1 00
Mr. Vandenstein 1 00
" Baker 1 00
A. Piper 1 00
Mr. Neish 1 00
" Smith 1 00
« Boyd 1 00
T. P. Allen 1 00
Mr. Reid 1 00
" Chatterton 1 00
G.Thompson 1 00
Henry Savage 1 00
Thoma-s'S'avage, Jr 1 00
H. Cunningham 1 00
Sums under $1 3 00
Lisioioel,
Collection (Prof. F.) 7 20
Mrs. McGregor 1 00
$324 20
Kingsion, Bethel.
Rev. W. M. Peacock 3 00
Joseph Waddingham 2 00
D. McBwen 1 00
B. W. Robertson 5 00
Mrs. Noon 1 00
Smaller sums 2 05
R. Rattenbury 1 00
$15 05
Kincardine.
Collection (Prof. F.) $10 00
Lanark .
Collection (Prof. F.) 12 33
Rev. J. Brown 3 00
J.Mair, Jr 2 00
B. Caldwell 2 00
$19 33
$8 20
Ma7iilla.
Colleciion (Prof. F.) 5 73
Do 7 50
$13 23
Markham and Unionville.
Collection (Prof. F.) $3 58
Martinioivn.
H. F. McDermid 1 00
A. F. McDermid 1 00
Hugh Christie, Sr 3 00
Peter Christie 2 31
Collection 3 69
$11 00
Middleville.
CoKection (Prof. F.) $9 00
North Erin.
Collection 2 56
G. Thompson 1 00
$3 56
Ottaioa.
Collection (Prof. F.) 4 23
S. S. Missionary Society 10 00
$14 23
PciTXS
C. Whitlaw 20 00
Estate of N. Hamilton 25 00
H. Hart 4 00
Rev. W. H. Allworth 10 00
A. H. Baird 2 00
W. W. Clay 2 00
Miss Sovereign 1 00
Miss J. Sovereign 1 00
Mrs. Wight 1 00
R. Campbell, Jr 1 00
F. D.Mitchell 1 00
Thos. Walker 1 00
Mrs. Fry 1 00
W. Walton 1 00
Dr. Cooke 100
B. Allworth 1 00
D. Finlayson .- 1 00
W. Hunter 1 00
J. Brockbank 100
P. Buckley.. 1 00
James Finlayson 1 00
D.Patton 1 00
Mrs. J. Tuflford... 1 00
CONTKlBtTTIONS FKOM THE OHUECHES.
105
J.H.Hackland $1 00
R. Clarke 1 00
Sundries 2 00
9 Subscribers, 50 cents each ... 4 50
5 " 25 cents each ... 1 25
$90 75
Rughy.
Collection (Prof. F.) $3 00
Sarnia.
Collection $12 00
Speedside.
Collection (Prof. F.) $9 00
Stouffville.
Collection (Prof. F.) $4 00
Toronto, Zion Church.
Grant from Benevolent Fund. $50 00
Toronto, Bond Street Church.
Proceeds of Lecture by Rev.
T. W. Handford 219 25
Bond Street S. S 15 00
Bond Street Mission School ... 5 00
Special Collections 56 00
Edward Becket 10 00
James Fraser 10 00
L. M. Livingston 10 00
Isaac T.Lewis 10 00
Thos. W. Handford 5 00
An aged Friend (a lady) 5 00
Edwin Potts 5 00
James Thomson 5 00
J. W. Fletcher 5 00
H. E. Caston 5 00
J. F. Eby 5 00
John Akers 5 00
James Carruthers 5 00
George Rodgers 5 00
William Roaf 5 00
A. T. McCord, jr 5 00
Thomas Heys 5 00
Edward Dack 5 00
Joseph Kilgour 5 00
A Friend (G.W.C.) 5 00
James Farrall 5 00
John Bradford 5 00
George Farquhar 5 00
Francis Hall 4 00
David Arnott 4 00
Robert Barber 4 00
Frederick J. Griffin 4 00
Wm. St. Croix 4 00
A. Miller 4 00
John Passmore 2 00
George Hall. $2 00
Francis Robinson 2 CO
Miss Crawford 2 00
W. L. McKenzie 2 00
Thomas Kirk 2 00
A. Mcintosh : 2 00
Arnold Rains 2 00
Richard Coe 2 00
L. Goldman 2 00
Mrs. Drouillard 2 00
W . B. Sh uttle worth 2 00
John J. Allworth 2 00
Dr.Carlyle 2 00
S. J. Hilton 2 00
George Gray 2 00
Miss Sarah'Cox 2 00
Frank Manchee 2 00
Wm. Ivesou 2 00
E. D. Manchee 2 00
Wm . McCartney 2 00
George Cole 2 00
D. C. Forbes 2 00
J. L. Taylor 1 00
George Virtue 1 00
A.K.Mcintosh 1 00
A. Stevens 1 00
Edward Dack, Jr 100
C. A.Kelly, Jr 1 00
J. B. Knight 1 00
Joseph Wey 1 00
George Lovell ; 1 00
Mrs. J. B. Thompson 1 00
Miss Douglass 1 00
A Friend 1 00
12 25
Toronto, Western Church.
Mr. Wm. Charters $2 00
" T. P. Haves 2 00
Rev. J.B.Silcox 2 00
Mrs. J. B. Silcox and children. 2 00
Mr. John Reillv 1 00
The Misses Reilly 100
Miss Douglas 1 00
Mrs. W. G. Smith 1 00
Mr. David WilHams 100
" Richard Flint 1 00
" Joseph Greenfield 1 00
" G. Roper and family 1 00
" Walter Triggs 1 00
" Wm. Stephens 100
Small sums collection 13 36
$32 36
Turnberry and Hoivick.
Collection |9 00
106
CONTKIBUTIONS FROM THE CHURCHES.
VanMeek Hill.
A.D. Tweed $2 00
Vespra.
Collection (Prof. F.) 2 76
Whitby.
Collection 4 00
Yorkville.
Collection (Prof. F.) 18 26
Additional 16 35
$34 61
Miscellaneous.
Rev. R. McKay $5 00
Mr. Wm. Edgar 4 00
" W. E. Welding 4 00
Rev. R.Brown 100
" E. D. Silcox 1 00
" J.Howell 1 00
Mr. G.S. Climie 1 00
" George Adams 1 00
$18 00
Total, Onlario... $1,390 16
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.
Brighavi.
Mrs. E. O . Brigham $5 00
MissH. Farwell 1 00
Mr. Harrison 1 00
Miss Dodsworth 1 00
Walter Brown 1 00
John Burnet 1 00
A.Wilson 1 00
G. Rueter 1 00
J. Cumb 1 00
Mrs. S. Short 1 00
James Hawthorne 1 00
Ira C.Saxe 1 00
Mrs. C. Wilkinson 1 00
Sums under $1 7 50
$24 50
Cowansville.
Mrs. D. Mair $7 00
W. P. Carter 5 00
B.W.Day 5 00
Mrs. Small 2 00
Mrs. Mackay 1 00
W.Macfarlane 1 00
Miss Dickenson 1 00
Sums under $1 3 00
$25 00
Granhy and South Ridge.
W. Miner $4 00
E. T. Milnes 2 00
R. Nicol 2 00
G. E. Mclndoe 2 00
Mrs. McCanna 2 00
R. K. Black 5 00
J . Duncan 1 50
P. Marshall 1 00
A.Douglas 1 00
J.Craig 1 00
D. Downs 1 00
J, Kay 1 00
A. Urquhart 1 00
J.Baird 1 00
R. Robertson 1 00
J. Barr, Jr 1 00
W.Neal 1 00
Sundry sums 5 85
$34 35
Inverness.
D. Cook $1 00
Donald Sillars 1 00
Niel McKenzie 1 00
Mrs. A. Solandt 1 00
James McKillop 100
A.McKillop..,: 1 00
Mrs. J. McKinnon 1 00
Small sums 1 00
$8 00
Montreal, Zion Church.
W.C. Smillie $50 00
Rev. Dr. Wilkes 20 00
Dr. W. Geo. Beers 10 00
Thos. Robertson 10 00
Jonathan Brown, for 1866-7. . . 10 00
Jas. Bavlis 10 00
R.Mills 10 00
J. C. Barton 10 00
W.M.Moonev, 10 00
H. K. Ritchie' 10 00
H. W. Walker 5 00
N. W. Trenholme 5 00
Dr. Wanless 5 00
Henry Birks , 5 00
John Heath 5 00
J. W. Taylor 5 00
Mrs. Wilkes 2 00
Elisha Nurse 2 00
Jos. Williamson 2 00
B. L. Nowell 1 00
Mr. Ellis 1 00
Collection 10 97
" at Opening Service,
for Library 15 00
$213 97
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CHTJECHES.
107
Montreal, Emmanuel Church.
J. S. and Wm. McLachlan . . . . $50 00
R. C. Jamieson 50 00
George Hague 45 00
Sir A. T. Gait 25 00
G. W.Moss 20 00
Wm. McLaren 20 00
Mrs. Learmont 16 00
Henry Lyman 15 00
R. W. Cowan 15 00
F. Scholes 12 00
F. E. Gilman 10 00
K. M. Fenvvick 10 00
Robert Dunn 10 00
Wm. Moodie 10 00
P.H. Burton 10 00
A. Robertson 10 00
Charles Alexander 10 00
Edward Evans 10 00
Rev. J. F. Stevenson 10. 00
Rev. Dr. Cornish 10 00
Alfred Savage 10 00
C. R. Black 10 00
J.T.Wilson 10 00
A. Spalding 10 00
J. B. Learmont 7 50
Wm. Reid 6 00
Tlieo. Lyman 5 00
John Mackintosh 5 00
John Popham 5 00
C.M.Alexander 5 00
H.Vennor 5 00
Dr. Andres 5 00
Henry Sanders 5 00
Dr. Edwards 5 00
Wm.McDunnough 4 00
John Dougall & Co .3 00
Rev. W.Williams 2 00
Collection .. 25 00
Do.; at Closing Service,
for Library 15 00
$510 50
Quebec.
Hatch Bros .'.... $10 00
H. W. Powis 10 00
George Penney 5 00
F. Billingsley 5 00
Thos. Brodie 5 00
Capt. Warner 5 00
Mrs. and Miss A.uld 5 00
Thomas Gale 5 00
William Cream 5 00
Rev. H. D. Powis 5 00
Theo. H. Oliver 4 00
Henry Willis 4 00
Wm. Semple 4 00
Mrs. Simons and Miss McFar-
lane 3 00
M. McMillan $3 00
Mrs. Longmuir 2 00
Mr. Corkell 2 00
Wm. Parke 2 00
Henry Moore 2 00
Miss Bean 2 00
Mrs. Robinson 1 00
Mrs. Leslie 1 00
Wm . Jacques 1 00
James Carroll 1 00
Wm. Hatch 1 00
Capt. Davison 1 00
Mrs. Hatch 1 00
S.Duffett 1 00
Mrs. Tweddell 1 00
Arthur Tweddell 1 00
— Montgomery 1 00
Hermann Young 1 00
Miss Davison 1 00
$101 00
Sherbrooke and Lemioxville.
Collections $7 05
T. S. Morey 5 00
MissesBell 3 00
S. B. Sanborn 2 qO
E.Hargrave.... 2 00
C. H.Fletcher 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. White 2 00
H. Hubbard 2 00
Rev. A.DufF. 2 00
M. McKechnie. 1 50
S. F. Morey 1 00
J. Loring 1 00
J. L.Johnston 1 00
Mrs. C. Brooks 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. Richards 1 00
C. Brvan & Son 1 00
E. W." Abbott 1 00
A, Stephens 1 00
Mrs. Wilder 1 00
Mr. Thornton 1 00
Alma Wilson 1 00
Mrs. F. Mitchell 1 00
A. S. Hurd 1 00
E. G. Brooks 1 00
P.Hubbard 1 00
P. McLennan 1 00
Mrs. Hurd 1 00
Miss Dickinson 1 00
Sums under $1 2 40
Waierville. $48 95
Collection $3 05
Rev. G. Purkis 2 00
Total, Quebec,
108
CONTRIBUTIONS FEOM THE CHUEOHES.
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW
BRUNSWICK.
(Collected by Rev. R. K. Black.)
Fredericton, N.B.
T. Logan $8 00
Keswick Ridge, N.B.
M. Mitchell $1 00
C. Pickard 1 00
A. Pickard 1 00
J. Pickard 1 00
$4 00
Saint John, N.B.
W. Kerr $10 00
A. L. Kerr 10 00
H.P. Kerr 5 00
T. B. Paterson 5 00
J. Woodrow , I 00
J. Elliot I 00
$32 00
Sheffield, N.B.
C. Burpee, M.P $5 00
D. Burpee 4 00
Hon. H. C. Harrison 3 00
Rev. J. Barker 2 00
H. P. Bridges 2 00
A. Barker.. 2 00
S.Burpee 1 50
Mrs. J . Harrison 1 00
Mr. Jewitt 1 00
J. Burpee 1 00
C. J.Burpee 1 00
$23 50
Total, New Brunswick. $67 50
Brooklyn, N.S.
E. McLeod $4 00
G. McLeod 4 00
C. McLeod 1 00
Mrs. N. Gardiner 1 00
Capt. J. Wharton 1 00
T. Gardiner 1 00
Collection 2 25
$14 25
Chebogue, N.S.
Capt. Bobbins $4 00
W. Healy 1 05
Mrs. H. Dennis 1 00
Mrs. S. Hilton. 1 00
Mrs. D. Kelly 1 00
Small sums 0 30
$8 35
Liverpool, N.S.
A Friend $10 00
Rev. D. McGregor 3 00
Mrs. McGregor 1 00
J. Dunlop 1 00
$15 00
Milton, N.S.
MissE. Tupper $100 00
Hon. F. Tupper 10 00
Jas. Tupper 10 00
W. H. Freeman 4 00
Rev. E. Barker 3 00
E. H. Freeman 3 00
Mrs. N. Tupper 1 00
A Friend 0 50
$131 50
Noel, N. S.
Rev. J. W. Cox $10 00
Yarmouth, N.S.
F. Dennis $10 00
N. K. Clements 10 00
R. Ellenwood 10 00
J. D. Dennis 4 00
D. Horton 4 00
Capt. Scott 4 00
Capt. Crosby 4 00
E. S. Williams 2 00
$48 00
Total, Nova Scotia.. 12 17 10
NEWFOUNDLAND.
St. John's, collection, &c $60 40
Miscellaneous.
Rev. E. Ebbs $5 00
Rev. John Allworth 5 00
$10 00
Summary
Ontario $1390 16
Quebec 970 82
Nova Scotia. 227 10
New Brunswick. . • 67 50
Miscellaneous 10 00
* Grand Total $2725 98
*0f this the sum of !ij!15.50 was received
after tlie date of tlie Treasurer's Statement,
thus luakiug the Grand Total §2,710.48.
APPENDIX A. 109
APPENDIX A.
RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS ,
CHRISTMAS EXAMINATIONS, 1S77.
Systematic Theology. — Max. 100,
Class /.— Warriner, (100); McGregor, (98); Wriglit, (90); Ewing, (82);
McB'adyen & Saer, equal, (75). Class II. — Grieve, (52); Coates, (46).
HoMiLETics. — Max. 100.
Class /.—Warriner, (100); McGregor, (96); Wright, (87)j McFad^^eii and
Ewing, equal, (85). Class II. — Saur, (70), Grieve and Coates,
equal, (55).
Historical Theology, senior. — Max. 100.
Class 7.— McGregor, (98); Warriner, (97); Wright, (97).
Apologetics. — Max, 100.
Class /.—Warriner, (92); Wright, (91); McGregor, (89); Ewing, (89); xMcFav-
den, (85); Saer, 85. Class //.—Grieve, (71), Coates, (53).
Historical Theology. — Max. 80.
(7fai'S /.—McGregor, (78); Warriner, (73); Wright, (73;; McFavden, (72);
Ewing, (69); Saer, (69); Grieve, (62). Class //.—Coates', (51)-
Church History. — Mjsx. 100.
Class /.—Warriner, (100); Wright, (94); Ewing, (94); McFavden, (93);
McGregor, (85); Grieve, (75). Class i/— Saer, (56). Class III.—
Coates, (44).
SESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS, 1878.
Pastoral Theology. — Max. 100.
Class /.— McGregor, (94); Warriner, (93); Willett and Saer, equal, (89);
Wriglit, (87); Ewing, (80); McFadven, (73); Grieve, (72) Cla.'^s II.
—Richards, (59).
Systematic Theology. — Max. 100.
Class /.—Warriner, (96); McGregor, (93); Ewing, (85), Willett and Saer, (78);
McFadjen, (76); Wright, (75). Cla.^s //—Grieve, (65); Richards,
(59).
New Testament Introduction. — Max. 100.
Gla.is /.—Warriner, (98); McGregor, (92); Wright, (8.3): Ewing, McFadven, and
Willett, equal, (78); Saer, (72). Clas-t,- //—Richards (28 of 50. being
56 of 100, only hall the SesRJon). Cla.s:'^ ///—Grieve, (44).
I
110 APPENDIX A.
Church History. — Max. 150.
Class I.— Wavrmev, (145); McGregor, (145); Willett, [126]; Wright, [122];
McFadyen, [121]; Richards, [120J; Saer, [119J; Grieve, [119];
Ewing, [116].
Historical Theology. — Max. 130.
Class J.— Warriner, [118]; McGregor, [115]; Willett, [103] ; McFadyen, [116].
Class //.—Wright, [91]; Saer, [81]; Richards, [77] ; Ewing, [74].
Class ///.—Grieve, [63].
Apologetics. — Max. 150.
Class /.—McGregor, [141]; Warriner, [134]; McFadyen, [125]; Ewing, [116].
CZas&-./i— Wright, [111]; Willett, [107] ; Saer, [98] ; (xrieve, [94];
Richards, [92].
Medal Examination — Historical Theology. — Max. 140.
Warriner, [140] ; McGregor, [122].
Old Testament Economy. — Max. 120.
Class /—McGregor, [118]; Warriner, [110]; Wright, [97]; Willett, [89J.
Hebrew Language. — Max. 100.
Class /.—Saer, [89]: Richards, [83]. Class //.—Grieve, [66].
Greek Testament Exegesis. — Max. 90.
Class /. — Warriner, [69], Class II. — McGregor and Wright, equal. [49].
APPENDIX B. Ill
APPENDIX B.
THE ENDOWMENT FUND.
Five year.s having elapsed during which this Fund was to have been com-
pleted, it is proper that since that is not done, progress should be reported
Hod prospects stated.
28 Subscribers have paid in full, amounting to > $3283 00
The English Subscribers have paid in full except £20, which will
be received in July, next 2651 00
Five Subscribers have paid only one instalment 310 00
Three " have paid two " 300 00
" " " four " ■ 050 00
« " " three " 405 00
A Legacy of late Mr. Peck 500 00
The Alumni, towards $4000 271 00
The Fletcher Legacy was 1500 00
The Residuum of "An Old Fund, in Toronto" 230 00
10,100 00
Sundry Items not included in the above 670 00
10,770 00
The land at Longue Point 240 00
: 1,010 00
In looking forward to the future it is to be noted that subscribers to the
amount of $2000 have paid as yet nothing on account; of this sum we cannot
expect more than one-half, say $1000.
Those who have paid one instalment now owe $970; of this sum we may
expect about $500. Such as have paid two instalments are good for the
remainder, which amounts to $750. The same may be said of such as have
jDaid three and four, whose promises yet unfulfilled amount to $500, making a
total of expected receipts of $2750; add $11,010 already received, and we have
a total of $13,760, which comes short of the $15,000 by which Mr. Smillie's
$5000 will be secured, to the extent of $1240. What may be further expected
from the Alumni is not estimated.
A Subscriber of $500, of which $200 is paid, promises to pay interest on
the unpaid portion until the matter is closed.
Received since last Report : —
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lyman, 1st. and 2iid. Instalments 200 00
Wm. Sommerville, Esq., Bristol, England, 4th Instalment 97 33
E. Hargrave, 3rd Instalment, A. Paton, 4th Instalment, Sherbrooke.. 20 00
Dr. Wilkes, last Instalment 40 00^
Mrs. N. Hamilton last Instalment, frou) Estate of late N. Hamilton, 100 00'
J. S. McLachlan, Montreal, 4th Instalment 100 00-
James Linton, Esq., " 4th " 5000'
Savings Bank and other Interest .30 1.3;
Interest of one year on Investment, paid to Treasurer 600 OOj
HENRY WILKES,
MoNTREAi,, 31st May, 1S77. Treasurer ^
THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL RERORT
— OF THE —
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY,
Pkesented at the Annual Meeting of Subscribers
— AT —
uoiisrrDOisr, 02srT^^:Fi.io, jtxiio etia, isvs.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ITS DIRECTION,
General Committee for 1878-9.
Secretary- Treasurer— Rev. H. Wilkes, d.d., ll.d., 249 Mountain Street,
Montreal.
Home Secretary — Rev. S. N. Jackson, m.d., Kingston, Ont.
Committee — Revs. W. H. Allworth,, W. Hay, W. Manchee, J. Unsworth,
E. D. Silcox, J. Gr. Sanderson, D. Macallum, J. Wood, Prof. Fenwick,
R, Mackay, R. Brown, R. K. Black, J. W. Cox, Dr. Cornish, B. W. Day, and
D. McGrregor, m.a. ; Messrs. W. E. Welding, Geo. Scott, G. .■^. Fenwick,
J. Cameron, Geo. Pirn, C. Lawes, W. B. Young, W. Reid and W. Edgar.
DISTRICT COMMITTEES.
Ontario Western.
Sea-etary — Rev. W. Manchee; Revs. W. H. Allworth, J. Salmon, b.a.,
C. Duff, M.A., W. Hav, R. W. Wallace, m.a., and Messrs. W. E. Welding,
H. Cox, S. Hodgskin,'Dr. Hyde, and C. Whitlaw.
Ontario Central.
Secretary — Rev. E. D. Silcox, Stouffville, Ont. ; Revs. J. B. Silcox, J. A. R.
Dickson, H D. Powis, J. Unsworth, W. H. Warriner, b.a., and Messrs. Jas.
Smith, Joseph Barber, T. Parker, W. Revell, and D. Higgins.
Ontario Eastern.
Secretary — G. S. Fenwick, Esq., Kingston, Ont.,; Rev». S. N. Jackson,
W. M. Peacock, D. Macallum, John Wood, H. Pedley, b.a., A. 0. Cossar, R.
Mackay; Messrs. G. Robertson, B.W. Robertson. A. Christie, J. H. McFarlane,
F. B. Osborne.
Quebec.
Secretary — Rev. A. Duff, Sherbrooke; Secretary oi the Montreal Section,
C. R. Black, Esq., Montreal ; Revs. J. F. Stevenson, ll.b.. Prof. Fenwick, R.
K. Black, and J. L. Forster; Messrs. J. Baylis, R. McLachlau, P. H. Burton,
E. Hargrave, H. Hubbard, W. Addle, and Hon. J. G. Robertson, M.P.P.
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Secretary — Rev. A. McGregor, Yarmouth, N. S. ; Revs. D. McGregor, m.a.,
J. Barker, S. Sykes, J. Shipperly, C. B. Woodcock, E. Barker, and the Hon.
F. Tupper, Messrs. Freeman Dennis, H. P. Bridges, T. B. Barker, and W.
Creelman.
FOEM OF BEQUEST. 113
/0rm 0f a Iqufst.
"I give and bequeath to the Canada Congregational
Missionary Society, incorporated by the Legislature of Ontario,
A.D., 1873, the sum of out of my
estate to be paid without any charge or deduction
whatever, and I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer of said
Society shall constitute and be a sufficient discharge thereof."
Note.— Such bequest must be made six months before testator's decease.
CONSTITUTION.
As amended at the Annual Meeting of Subscribers, at Toronto, Ont.,June, 1874.
Art. I. — That the Society be called "The Canada Congregational
Missionary Society in connection with the Colonial Missionary Society."
Art. II. — That its object shall be to aid feeble Congregational Churches
in sustaining their Ministers; to spread the Gospel, by means oY Missionaries,
among all classes of inhabitants, and to promote other general missionary
objects of the Congregational body.
Art. III. — That all persons subsci'ibing five shillings per annum, shall
become Members of this Society; and any person subscribing at one time
Twenty Dollars or upwards, shall he an Honorary or Life Member of this
Society.
Art. IV. — That the Missionary field shall be divided into such and so many
Districts as the Society may from time to time determine; and that for each
of these there shall be appointed by the Society from among its Members, after
nomination, at each Annual Meeting, a District Committee of not more than
ten members, with a Secretary-Treasurer; such Committee to consist, as far
as practicable, of pastors and members of self-sustaining Churches, and of
ministers and laymen in equal numbers.
Art. V. — That from each of the several District Committees, there shall
be chosen annually by the Society, after nomination, at least three members,
such representatives to form together the General Committee ; and that there
shall also be appointed by the Society anuually, after nomination, a General
Secretary-Treasurer, who shall receive and distribute the missionary funds,
and conduct the correspondence with the Colonial Missionary Society; and a
Home Secretary, who shall correspond with the Churches and the several
District Committees.
Art. VI. — That the Annual Meeting of this Society shall be held at the
same time and place as that of the Congregational Union of Canada, and
during such Annual Session the General Committee shall adjust all the
appropriations for the coming year as far as possible.
114 BY-LAWS.
Art. VII. — That each District Committee within its own bounds, shall
receive and report to the Genei-al Committee upon the annual applications for
aid; shall have power to make grants, in special cases, arising between the
meetings ot the General Committee, to such amounts and on such principles
as the latter bod}' may determine ; shall attend to the collection of missionary
contributions; shall explore unoccupied fields; shall superintend the labours
of evangelists and shall have a general supervision over the missionary work,
visiting each missionary field, by deputation, at least once in every year. And
that all. its proceedings, as they are taken, shall be reported to the officers of
the General Committee.
Art. VIII. — That all Churches receiving aid from this Society to sustain
their minister, shall be required, as the condition of its continuance, faithfully
to fulfill their own engagement towards his support.
Art. IX. — A detailed statement of Missionary affairs shall be made
annually to the Colonial Missionary Society.
Art. X. — That this Constitution and the Bv-laws may be altered by any
Annual Meeting of the Society, one day's notice having been first given to tlie
Society, in writing, of any proposal to that effect.
■ BY-LAWS.
1. All communications on the subject of grants shall be made by or to the
financial representatives of the church or station seeking aid.
2. Applications tor aid, in new cases, shall be made one month at least
before the Annual Meeting.
3. Every Missionary of this Society shall be in full communion with a
Congregational Church.
4. All the Missionaries shall report once in six months to the District
Secretaries respectively, and make a full statistical return annually according
to the prepared ^brms.
5. In the event of any District Secretary vacating his office during the
year intervening between the Annual Meetings, the name standing first on
the list shall be Convener, and the District Committee is empowered to appoint
a successor.
ANNUAL MEETING. 115
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CANADA
CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
'I he twent^v-flfth Annual Meeting of the Canada Congregational Missionary
Society, was held on Thursday afternoon, June 6th, 1878, in the Congregational
Church, London, Ontario.
On motion, 6. S. Fenwick, Esq., of Kingston, was called to the chair,
and Mr. \V. Henry Warriner was appointed MinuteSecretary.
After prayer'' by the Rev. J. Wood, the Secretary-Treasurer read the
' Annual Report and Financial Statement. On motion, the Report was, as
amended, adopted and ordered to be printed.
The Rev. John Wood, Missionary Superintendent, read his Report, and
tendered his resignation of office. On motion the Report was received.
Moved by Dr. Wilkes, seconded by the Rev. W. Manchee, and carried;
That the following gentlemen form the General Missionary Committee for
next year, viz., RevT Dr. Wilkes, J. Wood, W. H. Allworth, W. Hay, W.
Manchee, J. Unsworth, J. G. Sanderson, E. D. Silcox, D. Macallum, S. N.
Jackson, M. D., R. Mackay, R. Brown, Prof. Fenwick, R. K. Black, B,
W. Day, Dr. Cornish, D. McGregor, M.A., J. W. Cox, B.A., and Messrs,
J. Cameron, W. E. Welding, G. Pnn, G. Scott, C. Lawes, G. S. Fenwick,
W. Reid, W. C. Young, W. Edgar.
The Report of the Nomination Committee, as to the speakers for the
evening meeting, was adopted.
The Rev. Dr. Wilkes read a paper on the present condition and future
movements of the Society, which was followed by a discitssion in which
several gentlemen took part.
On motion, the debate was adjourned to the call of the Chairman.
In the evening, the Annual Meeting on behalf of the Society, was held in
the above Church, G. S. Fenwick, Esq., in the Chair.
The Meeting was opened by singing, reading' of the Scriptures and prayer,
when addresses were delivered b}^ the Rev. Thomas Hall, of St. .John's,
Newfoundland, D. H. Hunter, D. McGregor, M.A., of Liverpool, N. S., W.
Mcintosh, J. I. Hindley, M.A., and Messrs. P. H. Burton and W, Edgar.
After a collection had been taken up, the meeting closed with the Doxoiogy
and tlie Benediction.
Monday, June 10th.
An adjourned meeting of the Missionary Society, was held. at 10.30., a.m.
The Rev. Dr. Cornish, was called to the chair, in the absence of G. S. Fenwick,
Esq.
The Rev. R. Mackay moved, and the Rev. Jos. Unsworth seconded, the
following resolution, which was carried unanimously :
That a cordial vote of thanks be tendered to the Rev. John Wood
for the valuable services rendered to this Society and many of the
Churches, during the time he has filled the office of Superintendent of
Missions; and although his services in this respect are lost to the Society
116 ANNUAL MEETING.
and the Churches generally, by his return to the pastoral work, yet we
trust and earnestlj^ pi'ay that the Lord may greatly bless him in the new and
important sphere of labor to which he has been called in Ottawa.
Mr. Wood returned thanks for the resolution.
Rev. John Wood, from the General Misr^ionaiy Committee, recommended
the following as the District Committees, which were approved.
(See list on title page.)
Moved by Rev. K. M. Fenwick, and seconded by the Rev. R. K. Black;
that the Rev. Dr. Wilkes, be General Secretary-Treasurer. — Carried.
The Rev. John Wood moved, and Dr. Wilkes seconded, that the Rev, S.
N. Jackson, M.D., be appointed Home-Secretary. — Carried.
The adjourned debate was resumed.
Remarks were made by the Revs. Dr. Jackson, W. Hay, R. W. Wallace,
W. H Allworth, J. B. Silcox, J. A. R. Dickson, R. Brown, Dr. Cornish, ancl
W. Williams.
Rev. J. Wood moved, and Rev. K. M. Fenwick seconded, that Dr. Wilkes
be requested to publish as much of his paper as he may deem expedient. —
Carried.
Rev. Dr. Wilkes moved, and the Rev. R. Brown seconded. That the
Colonial Missionary Societ}^ be communicated with on the matter of a
Manitoba Mission, and asked to take into consideration the question of supply-
ing funds to support a Misssionary, that Missionary to be sent from Canada —
Carried.
Dr. Wilkes spoke on the present financial condition of the Missionary
Society, He was followed by the Rev. W. H. Allworth, Duncan McGregor,
R. Mackay, C. Duff, and T. Hall.
The Rev. R. W. Wallace read a letter from Rev. C. H. Brooks, of
Constantinople.
Moved by Rev. J. Wood, seconded by Rev. C. Duff, That that portion of
Dr. Wilkes' paper which relates to the General Agency, be referred to the
General Missionary Comittee, with instructions to report thereon next yeai;.
— Carried.
Dr. Cornish moved, and the Rev. J. B. Silcox seconded, that the Society
now adjourn, to meet at the call of the Chair.^Carried.
Rev. S. N. Jackson, closed with prayer.
4.. 'JO p. m.
The minutes of previous meetings were read and confirmed.
Moved by the Rev. J. B. Silcox, and seconded by the Rev. D. McGregor,
that we acknowledge the receipt of the letter from Mr. Brooks- and that the
General Missionary Committee be instructed to draw up resolutions expressive
of our sympathy and transmit them to Mr. Brooks.
The meeting then adjourned.
Di. Wilkes closed with prayer.
KEPOKT. 117
EEPOET.
This is the twentj^-fifth anniversary of the Society to which the
Home Mission work of the Congregational Church of Canada is com-
mitted. During the seventeen previous years they had under other
aiTangements been engaged in the same enterprise, one which must
ever l5e deemed of paramount importance. Growth is a law of life,
and if we as a body of Churches are to enjoy a worthy vigorous life,
we must grow steadily, and that assuredly by means of this Society.
In these days of rapid, masterful progress, that which is old is apt to
be relegated to an inferior position that the new and startling may
have the highest place ; we may hope that a quarter of a century
will not so place our Society among ancient things, that newer things
ma}^ have the preeminence. It and the College must have the chief
place in our regard, and must command our liberal and most ener-
getic co-operation, if, as a people, we are to occupy our rightful posi-
tion in this Dominion. The hint has reached us that there is languor
in some quarters, — not complaint of dissatisfaction with the working
of the machinery, but a languid, half-hearted interest in the work
itself. And that there is some ground for this fear appears in a few
of the subscription lists.
Local effort may perhaps be more generally stimulated by mak-
ing distinct and deep the impression that the worlc is actually in our
hands, and not in those of our friends in the Mother Country", and
that we must by our own efforts and plans determine the nature and
extent of that work. It is believed that a different impression widely
exists. It is supposed that from some way and from some quarter
quite undefined — j'et looKing abroad, not at home — all that is wanted
will be forthcoming and that this and that local effort need not be
otherwise than '' a widow's mite " to show an interest in the good
cause. If the mite was the widow's we should have no complaint,
but alas ! it is that of the well-to-do farmer, or mechanic, or merchant
whose appropriate " mite " would be tens or twenties.
Thus at this twenty-fifth anniversary it may be well to remind
the Society generally that for a number of years at the beginning of
this period, our gr'ants were made in view of the wants of the field,
which grants were received in England, and then what we failed our-
selves to raise for their supply was paid by the Colonial Missionary
Society. This was very convenient, but not remarkably adapted to
cultivate a sense of self-dependence in our churches. It placed us,
however, above the complaint that we had no funds. Then followed
for some years the plan of granting us a lump sum, liberal in amount
at first, but gradually diminishing. This change naturally affected
all the movements of the Committee, and yet its effect failed to reach
the imagination of many of the people. They still clung to the idea
that their deficiency would be made up somehow, and that great self-
exertion and downright self-denial were not called for. Another, and
a final stage has now been reached. The entire work is in our hands
to prosecute vigorously or to let slip through a criminal languor, en-
118 EEPORT.
couragement being given to the former course by a grant of twenty
per cent, on the amount we ourselves raise, and that grant to be ex-
pended on new and aggressive work. Languor is therefore suicidal.
Every church receiving aid is bound to do its very utmost that the
demand may be speedily lessened and soon extinguished. All the
congregations should be organized so as to obtain contributions from
every one towards a work in which all should have a common interest.
Thought should be in exercise in Qvevy part of the field on the subject
of extension. Places should be found in every district to promote
that extension. In fine we need throughoui our wide and promising-
field of work and service, a baptism of the spirit of power and of love
and of a sound mind. Let this be sought on this quarter century
annivetsary.
The details of his own work (lor three quarters of the year) will
be supplied by the Home Secretary who will also explain his resig-
nation of the office of Missionary Suporintendant, and a description of
the course pursued by the several Districts and an account of Grdd's
blessing thereupon will be supplied by the five District Secretaries in
their reports. It will be found that the number of the brotherhood
of the Missionar}' pastors is somewhat lessened by several of the
churches having become self-supporting. The number during the
year has been thirty-four. To these might be added six students who
prosecuted evangelistic work during their vacation, though this year
without aid from our funds, the friends among whom they laboured
having been generous and faithful in the matter of compensation.
The Colonial Missionary Society with its usual promptitude and
kindness, voted and paid the twenty per cent, of our last year's con-
tributions, which, however, was all absorbed in the payment of the
July quarter. The appeal made by the Home Secretary, as instruct-
ed b}' the General Committee, in June, for collections to wipe out the
debt, in other words, to pay the July quarter, resulted in ttie contri-
bution of $267,13.
The Financial Statement is as follows, compared with the pre-
vious year :
RECEIVED, EXPENDED.
1877-8 1876-7 1877-8 1876-7
Western Ontario 701 716 920 1491
Middle Ontario 886 869 1474 1290
Eastern Ontario 817 847 762 807
Quebec 818 890 391 494
N.S. and N. B. inch, TrustFunds.. 987 970 1395 1149
Contributed for debt 267
Missionary Superintendent 499 650
Colonial Missionar}^ Society 775 1206
$5,254 $5,502 $5,443 $5,883
Tlie amount in hand, 1876-7, for payment of July quarter. . . . $356
The amount in hand, 1877-8, for payment of July quarter 54
The amount required 1876-7 was $1,250. Required 1877-8, $1,118
Henry Wilkes,
General Secretary- Treasw^er.
BEPORT. 119
Substance oe the Paper read by Dr. Wilkes at the
Annual Meeting.
It must be appai'ent to us all that, as a denomination, we have
made marked and substantial progress during the period to which
the Eeport refers. That it has not been so rapid as that of some other
Christian bodies is easily accounted fo»" by considerations quite out-
side ourselves. If their equals or even superiors in zeal and energy —
which we are too modest to assume is the case — yet if we were, we
could not expect, for many reasons, to attain their standard of ad-
vancement. I do not trouble you with those reasons, for they are no
part of the present subject. The point to be noted is that we have-
greatly increased in strength and influence. It is not so clear, how-
that all has been done that might nave been done. More of the
Spirit of the Master in the individual members of the churches, and
in the churches themselves, would undoubtedly have placed us to-day
in a more advanced position. It may, I suppose, be assumed that all
of us would regai'd this as an advantage to the general community.
Our Canadian Christianity, as a whole, is much the better of our ex-
istence and work. We have an important place in the kingdom of
our Lord. It is worth while to struggle and to toil in the mainten-
ance of our testimony on the side of certain great principles of a free
Scriptural Gospel, and consequently it is erainentlj'^ desirable in itself
that we should make progress.
The work of our Missionary Society has been an essential factor,
and remains such, in any estimate we may form either of what has
been done or may yet be done, on this behalf; and the design of this
paper is to open, and guide a conference on its present condition and
its prospective movements, and these in immediate connection with
the true progress of our Lord's Kingdom. It is to be noted that to an
extent unusual, if not unparalleled, our existing churches are supplied
with, pastors, while numerous young men of great promise are com-
ing forward to prepare for the work of the Christian ministry. Be-
sides, it would not be difficult to induce some of our brethren who have
left' us for a season, to return from the United States, and resume
labours among us, they perhaps very much benefitted by their expe-
rience there. In addition to these facts there is another, namely,
that very valuable help in our work will now and again be supplied by
able and tried men who seek our larger and freer principlesof fellow-
ship from other denominations. It. is felt that great care needs to be
exercised at this point, yet such needful care will not exclude from
our ministry able and excellent men such as some who now adorn it.
Thus we have a field wide enough, particularly as there is now added
to it the growing North-West ; men are coming forward and more
would listen to invitations to join us, and withal our own people, who
ai'e among the intelligent and enterprising, are going forth in great
numbers into town and country districts in which we have no organ-
ized representation, and in the loss of whom we give up the gains
120 REPORT.
which God hath enabled us to obtain. Besides there are places,
especially in the province of Quebec, where we were once strong, in
which we have buildings, and which are now, by means of railways
so increasing in population, that they need to be occupied again.
The one thing by which we ai-e met as a barrier and a discourage-
ment is a treasury in debt and an income in no respect commensu-
rate with our clamant need. Treasury in debt ! How is this ? To ex-
plain, it should be noted that our annual grants are made from July
1st to June 30th, though our accounts are made up nominally on the
1st April. As the matter now stands, the April quarter having been
paid, though late in that month, there remains, after the years contri-
butions have hten received from all sources, the sum of S54 only to meet
the amount of the last quarter of the 3'ear, that of July, namely, ^1,-
118, or more than $1,050 short. Another point should be explained :
for several years the annual deficit has been met on the first of July
by drawing for the English grant in whole or in larger part. That
grant, being intended for iheMnconiing year, was thus either wholly or
in part absorbed to fulfil the obligations of the expiring year — a very
objectionable arrangement.
With this explanation to clear the way, the question comes up
squarely and with no little force, can anything be done in the way of
organization or in any other way to secure a large increase of funds?
It is the one practical question. And here we are met with a diffi-
culty which is strange in the history of Congregationalism, 1 mean
the want of a number of men — business men, not ministers — who
take a lively, energetic, self-sacrifising interest in this matter. In
England, Scotland, and the United States, the men of affairs, not
ministers, are prominent, active, thoughtful in the promotion of such
work and in forming plans concerning it. Mr. Henry Lee, of Man-
chester, Mr. James Spicer, London, and other similar spirits have
been leaders in the movement by which English Congregationalism
has been organized to do there what this Society has to do here, and
they subscribe their hundreds of pounds sterling per annum to the
object. Can anything be done to stir up and bring together it our
cities and towns, aye, and in centres in the rural districts, such men
for consultation and work ? If anything could be done, my impres-
sion is that in many places the subscriptions of one dollar
would be changed to five or ten, and those of five and ten
to twenty-five, fifty and a hundred. It is for want of a true appre-
hension of the matter and not for want of ability that subscriptions
of $100 this year are confined to one church which has been long and
well trained by the present Secretary of the Union. Methodism and
Presbyterianism, though apparently less adapted to train what are
called laymen to work for the church than Congregationalism, have
many such men as I have spoken of in all parts of the country ; we
shall never do much more than we ar© doing unless we have them.
Another point to which 1 know your thoughts will turn, is an
ascency detached from the pastorate that shall stimulate, animate and
REPORT. 121
superintend this whole matter ; and undoubtedly such an agency
would not only be a wise economy, but in all respects would be fitted
to aid materially the attainment of the end we are seeking. But it
must be so organized as to instrumentcdly bring to tlie funds of the So-
ciety severed times the amount of its own cost. I wish to press on your
attention that income is in this matter one of the main factors of the case.
Now in order to this and to attain the needed end, the brother who
acts as said agent must have no duties requiring his presence in a
given locality at frequent dates ; indeed he should hardly have a loca\
habitation at all, for he has a stretch of countrj^ from Sarnia in Ont-
ario to Liverpool in Nova Scotia, and Margaree in Cape Breton, to
look after, not to mention soon Manitoba. No man could work
harder than our brother who has recently relinquished the office of
Missionary Superintendent, — no one could have been moi*e thought-
ful and zealous, but he was hampered by incompatible duties, which
necessarily restricted anything like effective service to this Society
within narrow geographical limits, and the organization of his office
did not include that essential matter of raising in every part of the
country a large increase of fands. There is needed an agent who can
visit individually men who can give in all the Districts for the purpose
of awakening them to their duty. If a new movement has tobe made
in Ontario, Quebec, or the Maritime Provinces, this brother must
feel called upon to g© to those most interested and to ask for the
amount required. To depend on our general funds now overtaxed is
in vain ; the men whose interest can be easily excited must be called
to contribute what is needful. It will all be reported, and thus the
work will advance and our income be augmented.
In the probable lack of the right man for such an agency as is
described, it admits for consideration whether the next best thing-
would not]be to detach from his work in the pastorate in each District
a suitable brother for a month or six weeks, giving him this high
commission and an appropriate remuneration. We are convinced
that there must be more close and individual work done than the
holding of a missionary meeting or preaching a sermon. Such an
agent, whether general or for the District, would in many instances
organize Congregational auxilaries, with, say monthly collections, and
perhaps quarterly meetings.
Brethren, 1 have come up among you in my old age and physical
infirmity to call your attention to these matters. Perhaps a change
of centre would help you, and the placing of the G-eneral Secretary-
Treasurership in Toronto instead of Montreal would be of advantage.
I do not know whether it would be or not ; you are the best judges.
One thing is most clear, being quite ready to step down and out at
this present — even glad to so do resigning at once into other hands —
yet 1 say one thing is most clear, my term of service is rapidly ex-
piring ; and another thing is equally clear, namely, that new plans
and fresh work cannot be undertaken by me. I have loved this work
and laboured in it for forty-two years and now my juniors must take
122 OlfTAEIO — WESTERN DISTKICT.
it up. I am willing to go on for the time in my present position if
that be deemed best, but we must have a new baptism of missionary-
zeal and effort, and that widely extended over the whole field. Each
man and woman must feel the burden of responsibility. I am anx-
ious to have a full, frank, hearty conference by men, every one of
whom should feel that he has responsibility in the matter to God and
to the cause of Christ in general and to the churches. I am quite
satisfied that the laissez faire course will not do ; we must not con-
tinue as we are, indeed we cannot do so. We must go backward unless
we take a new departure in the name of our Stiviour King. What'
that shall be you must prayerfully consider and decide, and you
ought to do so at this meeting in 1878.
ONTARIO.— WESTEEN DISTEICT.
This District although affording much room for Home Mis-
sionary enterprise, has now almost ceased to be missionary ground.
Listowel IB Sit present without a pastor, the Eev. Mr. Eose, its
former pastor, having accepted a charge in one of the lower Provin-
ces. It is we believe supplied at present by Mr. Archibald F. McGre-
gor. As we have before us no report from that field, we cannot give
one.
St. Catharines. — Still under the care of the Eev. J. E. Black, B. A.
This brother, in his last report, was I'ejoicing in a re- ival which was
resulting in the salvation of souls, and in bringing in some of the
younger members of the families of his people to the Church. A.
similar work, under Brother Black's ministry, was going on at an
out-station, about four miles from the city, resulting — as it is hoped
— in the saving of souls, and adding to the church. Brother Black
writes hopefully as to the future.
The large fields of Turnberry and the two Howick churches are
now under the care of Eev. Mr. Gray, This one Missionary is now
occupying the ground previously the field for two, thus relieving the
funds of the Society.
The wisdom of placing one man over so extended a field is
very questionable and we regard it as a retrograde step to a condi-
tion of things long ago tried without much progress under a former
pastor.
Eev. Mr, Gray writes of Turnberry : — " The Congregations have
been very good throughout the year ; eight persons have been added
to the membership. We have cherished the spirit of christian love
and worked together in harmony."
Hoioick 12th. — The church here has suffered by the removal of
members and adherents who have sold out to Germans, but while
there has been from this cause a decrease in the congregation, good
has been done, and the Bible Class kept up, and three have been
added to the Church.
ONTAKIO— MIDDLE DISTEIOT. 123
Howick 9th. — The church here, which for years has been the
smallest of the group, has doubled its membership this year by an
addition of eleven. Mr. Gray writes, that ft-om twenty-five to thirty
young persons meet before j)reaching to receive instruction Irom the
Bible. Congregation gradually increasing.
Mr. Gray preaches in Clifford on Monday nights, as from neces-
sit}^ he cannot do it on Sundays. This does not seem to answer work-
ing men. On the whole, Kev. Mr. Gray is doing a good work but
the field is too large for one man.
When the churches awaken to a sense of the importance of our
Home Missions, and the funds of the Society are replenished, there
will be found an ample field in which to plant new churches in the
Western District of Ontario, but in the present condition of the
treasury, and apparent apathy of some of the churches, it would be
folly to attempt it. But " Jehovah Jireh," others are not slow to do
what we so complacently neglect.
The following resolution was passed by the Committee of th
Western District to be appended to this Report : —
'' We, the Members ot the Western District Committee, while feeling that
the Rev. J. Wood was justified in relinquishing the post of Missionary Super-
intendent— under existing circumstances — would record our conviction that
the giving up of the office he filled was a decidedly retrograde step.
"■ We trust that as soon as possible the office will be resumed as it does
undoubtedly very much to advance our denominational interests. We would
also bear our most cordial testimony to the thoroughness and efficiency of
Brother Wood's labours diu'ing his term of service."
W. H. ALLWOETH,
District Secretary^ Pro-tem.
ONTARIO.— MIDDLE DISTRICT.
Owing to my having just accepted the position of Secretary for
this District, and also having but little information at hand res-
pecting the churches, the report must of necessity be incomplete and
unsatisfactory, but hope to do better another year.
Acton. — A change has taken place in this field during the past
year. The pastor finding it very trying to his health, tendered his
resignation at South Caledon, and removed to Acton where he
preaches twice each Sunday, with an occasional service at Church-
hill. There are signs of progress here. The congregations, though
not large, are slowly increasing. A Sunday School has been
organized, and the pastor rejoices to state that in numbers and
interest it is growing rapidly.
South Caledon. — No report, but we have just been informed that
Mr. Francis Wrigley has accepted a call and been ordained as pastor.
We hope to hear glad tidings soon.
124 ONTAEIO — MroDLE DISTKIOT.
Bownianville. — We have no report excepting one dated December,
1877, in which the pastor, Eev. W. H. Heu de Bourck, speaks very
hopefully of the cause. The church and parsonage had undergone a
thorough repair, the expense of which had been provided for.
Under the above date he writes : — " We began after the place
of worship had been closed for six months, with a congregation of
30, we have now 27 families connected with the place. Our
adherents number 102 persons."
This was written nearly a year ago and we hope they have
gone on increasing at the same rate ever since. We have just heard
that they are busily engaged in building a new church.
Owen Sound. — Under date of May 14th, Mr. Hindley writes: —
" The cause in town remoins very weak and we are conslantlj^ suffer-
ing from removals. Lately we have been much encouraged by a
larger attendance of young people, and a very marked improvement
in the prayer meeting. Some conversions have taken place and we
expect additions to the church.
In connection with Owen Sound there are several out-stations of
which the pastor writes as follows: — " South Kejypel is progressing;
the congregation is exceeding!}" good and the Sunday School is doing
an excellent work. We have a noble little church of over 40
members.
North Derby. — " We have met with much encouragement here.
Having held special services lately a number have accepted Christ
and several are added to the church which now numbers 30. There
is also a good Sunday School." Work has been resumed at MaxwelVs
with encouraging results.
Whitby. — In May, Mr. Johnston writes : — " The cause here is in
some respects very encouraging. There have been eight additions
during the year of a very hopeful class. A number of names have
been dropped from the list. Financially the church is weak, — being
composed mainly of people of very limited means. During the year
there has been raised for all purposes about $500."
At this writing, the pastor, Eev. J. F. Malcolm, has tendered his
resignation, and the church talks of" suspending operations," but wc
hope they will not do so. — "There is yet a brighter day."
North Erin. — Eev. H. J. Colwell writes hopefully of the cause
here: — "We ai'e living in peace, our congregations remain good.
We have begun a very successful Sunday School, — large numbers are
attending, and it seems to be well managed. Through the influence
of the young people, the church building has been jDainted and im-
jDroved.
There has been a slight falling off in membership from last
year."
Neio Market. — No Eeport. Eev. H. D. Hunter was installed
pastor in May and is doing a good woi*k. Congregations are increas-
ing.
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Wiarton. — Rev. K. Kobinson writes : — Since last report, 31st
December, there have been no additions to the church, and congre-
gaiions on the Sabbath mornings have been injured somewhat by the
opening of a new Presbyterian cburch. I have, I suppose, my fair
proportion of our church going people, but there is greater competi-
tion ; on the other hand the Sabbath evening congregation is greatly
improved. A series of Controversial Lectures which I delivered
against the Baptismal views of " The Disciples," has considerably
helped our cause here.
Eegularly I preach three times, and generally have to prepare
three sermons each week.
My Bible Class, on Friday evenings, promises to bo fairly
attended, and the Sabbath School is keeping up encouragingly.
Our chapel debt was all subscribed for by reliable hands at a
recent meeting and we have just purchased, (part cash, and engage-
ment to pay for rest) a good organ.
Thus we have outward prosperity, and having a good deal of
peace and love, I hope that we have some and shall have more spirit-
ual prosperity."
i¥arMaOT.— The pastor, Eev. E. C. W. McColl, writes May 14th :
^' Markham Village.— The church here has suffered by removals,
to such an extent as to render it a very weak and discouraging
portion of the field. There are some of the "true and the tried"
here, who still stand to their guns in face of much difficult3^ The
Sabbath School though has been gaining in attendance, rising dur-
ing the last four months from 30 to 55.
" Unionville. — This is the more hopeful corner of the Vineyard.
Here, though our place of worship is generally full, being the only
evening service in the village, the congregation consists, in the pro-
jiortion of at least one half, of members or adherents of other
churches. Their presence therefore, however AVelcomed, gives little
reason to expect accessions from that quarter. The Sabbath School
here, of the same promiscuous character, has a regular attendance of
about 100 scholars with 14 teacher and officers. Our prayer-meetings
are well attended, and are valued as seasons of real refreshment.
We have lost ten members by removal ; added three on profession,
and expect to see others soon deciding for Christ. ' Faint yet
pursuing.' "
Toronto Western Church. — Under date of May, the pastor. Rev. J.
B. Silcox, writes : — " We have nothing of special interest to report..
The work has gone on pleasantlj^. The attendance at the different
services has quietly increased during the year. The zeal and
liberally of the members has been blessed by God in the quickening
of some and in the conversion of others. There have been forty
additions to the membership since last May. Twenty-five by profes-
sion of faith and fifteen by letter.
The prayer-meetings are well attended.
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126 ONTARIO — EASTEEN DISTKICT.
The Sunday School is growing in numbers and in thoroughness
of work done. The weekly teachers' meeting is found to be a neces-
sity, and does much to increase the power and usefulness of the
teaching service of the church. Young and old attend our school.
The Total Abstinence Society has held several public meetings
and always has a full house. The Band of Hope is vigorously
growing; it now numbers two hundred. The Finance Committee
report that the depression in trade has pressed heavily on some of
the members, some being unable to obtain steadj^ employment.
Still the people have been liberal and have manifested a desire to
reduce the debt of the church. $93 was paid on the mortgage in
April. We have still a debt of over $4,000 to tussle with. The church
were able to contribute $60 to the Missionary Society this j'eai*. It
will bo their ambition to be independent of Missionary aid as soon as
they are able. We feel to need its help for another year at least."
In closing this report, I would like to suggest to the brethren,
the desirability of promptly forwai-ding their half-yearly reports to
the Secretary, and to write them as though they were to be placed
at once in the printer's hands.
E. D. SILCOX,
Stoufpville, Sept. 20th, 1878. Secretary M. D. Committee.
ONTAEIO.— EASTERN DISTRICT.
With the exception of Brockville 1 have pleasure to report, that
all the churches in this District, are supplied with Pastors. A new
church has applied for aid but for want of funds we have been com-
pelled to decline its application.
With the hope of further enlisting the sympathies of those who
may not know the cheerful efforts and struggles which are made by
our brethren for the advancement of our Saviour's Kingdom, I have
taken the liberty of making fuller extracts from their reports than
perhaps needful.
Belleville. — Rev. A. O. Cossar, pastor, writes in December last: —
'•The church has recently exhibited more vigour than 1 have pre-
viously known it to do. The services have been v;ell attended and
quite a number of people have been admitted into membership.
The Sunday School has likewise received a number of additions
lately, both in new and efficient teachers, and in the mullij3lication
of pupils. Conversions have been quite frequent in connection wiih
the Sunda}' School work.
Throughout the work we have three religious services, — two
cottage prayer-meetings in different parts of the town, which are
well attended and prove very useful; also our regular church
prayer-meeting, much appreciated and constantly attended by many.
ONTARIO — EASTERN DISTRICT. 12T
The financial affairs have received special attention lately. The
deacons are making an effort, to swell the roll of contributions, but
find that they mu.st continue for some time yet to be dependent on
the C. M. S. S. for its appreciated assistance."
In the May report, he writes : — " The church has been diligently
working by every available means for the advancement of the King-
dom of Christ. I cannot, however, say that there has been very
much accomplished by which the church has been strengthened or
many added to it, but it has been able to maintain its place, and
represent the denomination, amongst the other churches in the city.
For the past two months I have been preaching special sermons on
Sunday evenings, and the congregations have been very good.
There has also been a " Ladies' Aid Society " recently established
in connection with the church, which is working quite vigorously.
The difliculties in Belleville are not diminishing, but rather the
odds continue to increase. Some of the other denominations in the
city, have, within the past lew years, put up costly and attractive
buildings, which have outrivaled us entirely, so that our structure is
now the least elegant of the church edifices.
We hope that we may, or that the denomination may, before
long, be able to erect a better building and keep pace with other
churches, the request of the times, the needs of a city, and the history
and respectability of Congregationalism."
Brockville. — Since the departure of Eev. T, M. Eeikie, there has
been no effort to revive the church here. The Baptist brethren
have been worshipping in the chapel while their own new building
is being built. The Presbyterian body desire to have it, when unoc-
cupied, until their own beautiful new building is finished. There is
vigour and activity in all the other bodies but our own. Could the
Society afford to send a young man, with energy and ability, for two
or three years, a church would be formed that very soon would be
self-sustaining.
Middleville. — Pastor, Eev. Eobert Brown: — "This has been a
hard year with our people; I see no diminution of willingness to
give to the Lord's cause, but I see plainly a decrease of ability. The
failure of crops, owing chiefly to the grasshoppers, and the depres-
sion in the lumber business have made money scarce. During the
last yera- we received on profession eleven members, we lost by death
five, dismissed by letter,' seven. Three went to live in Mayo, who
are yet in connection with us. Onehas recently gone to Manitoba,
others have removed to distances beyond our reach ; making in all
about fifteen absentees. Four heads of families, all prominent in the
church, will leave in a short time for the North West — these
represent at least seven families, who contemplate finding new
homes in that part of the Dominion. When I see them trying to
escape from this hard soil to the fertile regions of Manitoba, 1 do not
feel like persuading them to stay here, but rather encourage them, to
go.
13S ONTARIO — EASTERN DISTKIOT.
Our eonjrregations and attendance at the Sabbath School have
been about the same last j^ear as formerly,
I still feel happy in m}' work here, and contemplate with hope
and joy another year's work for the Lord amongst this people.
Lanark. — Pastor, Eev, John Brown : — " There are some things
very encouraging with us and some things the very reverse.
The attendance at the regular Sabbath Service is good. A
marked improvement during the last year in the evening congrega-
tions. The prayer-meeting on Wednesday evening is not as full as
it should be but much better than a year ago.
The Sabbath School is good and I feel that good work is being
done that will tell in the lives of the pupils.
We have, during the last half-year, got an excellent reed organ
in the church, on which there is only about $35 of debt, which we
hope to pay off soon.
On the other side some young christians are losing their first
love. The gravel of the world is in their mouth and their taste for
the bread and wine of the Lord's table is destroyed."
Athol.—^QiiOY, Eev. D. Macallum : — " The only changes in this
field have been the erection of a comfortable barn and stable combined
and the opening of a new station on the 13th of Indian Lands.
The additions to the membership during the year now closing
have not been equal to those of last year.
We are moving in the matter of a new building, and only for
some difficulty respecting the site, would be able to go on without
any trouble.
I am pleased to record that though the times have been com-
plained of as haid, our contributions to the Society have been in
advance of previous years, and the amount guaranteed bj^thechtrch
has been fully met,"
Vankleek Hill and Hawkeshuty.— It will give the friends of this
Society much pleasure to learn that these churches, working under so
many disadvantageous circumstances for several years have secured
as pastor Mr. Geo, Willett, who has just finished his course at the
Congregational College of British North America,
We hope to receive cheering news frohi them in next report,
Ottawa — Since our last report the Kev. J. G. Sanderson, then
pastor of this Church, has accepted an affectionate call from his
former charge and has been succeeded by the Eev. John Wood who
writes as follows : —
" Having been here only four months I have but little to say,
except that 1 find the people very cordial and united. They have
received us in the Lord with all gladness, and express themselves
QUEBEC DISTRICT. 129
Bomewhat hope^nn3% but I find them numerically weaker than I
expected, there being an actu'd bona fide membership of only 48. We
have recently era-^ed 22 names from the roll on account of removal
from the Citj' without taking letters.
The house of woi^ship has been repainted and carpeted
at a cost of three hundred and fifty dollars, which we are trying to
pay during the summer and fall. I think the people are doing all
they can in the very hard times in the way of raising money."
GEOEGE S. FBNWICK,
Secretary of Eastern District.
QUEBEC DISTEICT.
During the weeks and months of another year, our Home
Missionaries have laboured in season and out of season. "They
have continued stedfastly in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship,
and in breaking of bread, and in praj-ers." They have "served the
Lord with all humility of mind " " Keeping nothing back that was
profitable to their hearers, but have shewed them, and taught them
publicly, and from house to house testifying impartially, to each and
all, repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ."'
Yes, I know these dear brethren and can testify that they are in the
line of Apostolic succession ; the spirit and temper and work, and
endurance of the Apostles they have exhibited. They have taken
heed unto themselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost
hath made them Bishops to leed the Church of God which he hath
purchased with his own blood.
Of Fitch Bay, Brother Adams writes; — "I will say nothing about
our weakness and discouragements and leave the reason of our slow
progress unexplained, and thank God that things are no worse.
We are at peace among ourselves, in the church, and I trust we
have a good report from those that are without. I think we are
making some little progress in the good work of saving souls. Ten
hfve been added to the membership of the church, by profession,
during the past six months. Some others are seriously inclined who,
I hope, will soon find peace in believing. I thank God that he gives
me health and strength to do the work I hitherto have done. So
that I have not had to drop any of the preaching places, and with
one exception the meetings are apparently growing in numbers and
interest. Of the future I will not conjecture, leaving all to the dispo-
sal of the Master, to whom 1 ascribe all honor and glory for any
mercy." In April, he wrote, there is nothing to report since
December, and you will please excuse any lengthened description of
our work in this field.
130 QUEBEC DISTRICT.
Of Waterville, Mr. Purkis writes : — I have nothing of importance
to report more than comrtion. I have been favoured with a good
share of health so that I have been able to preach every Sabbath.
The only times my place has been vacant were, one Sabbath while at
the Union Meetings in Guelph, and one when I preached at Eaton —
according to an arrangement with the Association. I have during
the year preached 173 sermons — 53 of which have been in Waterville.
Since this time last j^ear, we have received one member by profession
and two by letter. And one has been dismissed b}' letter, and one
has joined the Church above. Our gain being thus one, leaving our
present membership 52. Besides conti'ibutions for the support of
thts Gospel among themselves, somewhat over their guarantee, our
people have given for Congregational "Union Fund, $8.40; for Con-
gregational College, $5 05; Missionar}^ Society, including $3.50 for
special effort, $29.61 ; Bible Society, $18.40 ; and Incidental Expenses,
$18.40. They are now trying to raise $150, for the repair of the
parsonage, about $70 of which is alreadj^ subscribed." At one of
Mr. P's stations, Capelton, the mining operations have been entirelj^
suspended, and the smelting works almost entirely stopped — a very
large proportion of the workmen have been discharged. This has
greatly reduced his congregations, yet he continues his labours, and
will do so. He is encouraged by the numbers who attend in the
circumstances. There is now some hope of the works going on again.
Of Eaton we are able to report good things. During the year
the Lord's work has been much revived there. A young Evangelist,
a native of the place, but recently from New Hampshire — paid a
visit to his parents and his old home, and while there a wonderful
work of grace was the fruit of his labours A very interesting
account of the revival will be found in the Canadian Independent
vol. xxiv, pp. 282-283. The result has been, that the Church has
called to the'^pastoral office, Eev. W. W. Smith, late of Pine Grove. On
Tuesday, May 28th, an ecclesiastical Council met, and after a very
satisfactory examination, installed Mr. Smitii, as tlieir pastor. Eaton
will ,'.oon we think, attain to the position it has long desired and
aimed at — of being a self-sustaining church.
Another of our Quebec churches has taken a new start during
the year. The church in Franklin has called to the pastoral office,
one of the students who have just left College, Mr. J. C. "Wright.
For a short time this cause will require missionary help to a small
extent; but we hope it also will soon be self-supporting.
For the present, Inverness is supplied by student labour, Mr.
Saer is there for this summer. All expenses are borne by the
church.
Of Durham and Melbourne, much cannot be said. They have
been continuously supplied every sabbath during the year, by Mr.
Mcintosh, and not without manifest blessing from on high. One of
the church edifices referred to in our last report, and now deeded to
us, has been occupied regularly on week evenings, by Mr. Mcintosh,
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BETNSWICK DISTRICT. 131
when large assemblies have gathered together to hear the Word.
At the close of the year, Mr. Mcintosh, felt it necessury to resign
the pastoral charge of Durham, and the Local Committee are anxi-
ouslj" looking for some one to occnpj'' that field, lie remains in
Melbourne, at the urgent request of the people, sustained by the
District Committee. It is his intention to extend his preaching
appointments immediately. The people have undertaken to build a
parsonage, and the work progresses vigorously.
AECH'D DUFF,
Dist. Secretary.
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK DISTEICTv
Keswick Ridge, N.B. — The pastor, Rev. S. Sykes, writes, "the
Eeport of our field of labour, for the present year, differs in some
respects from my former ones from here. The additions to the
membership of the Church have been fewer, but I think that spiritual
development has been greater. Financially, owing to business
depression, we have been pressed if not on every side, on that one
side in our measure; yet current expenses have been met, and small
contributions made to several of our Societies."
Chebogue, N. S. — This has been an eventful year to the Church.
Capt. N, K. t lements, one of the deacons of the Tabernacle Church,
Yarmouth, prompted by early associations and a longing desire for
Chebogue's independence of missionary aid, originated and carried
out, personally, a scheme whereby the remaining debt of $900, was
wiped away. . Now, at length, the Church, grateful for past favors,
is to move on independent of missionary aid, thankful to the Society
and Yarmouth friends. Rev. James Shipperley, the past :r, writes,
" Brotherly love continues. Also deep thought and matured deter-
mination to hold fast that which is good. Some additions to church
fellowship. Congregations good and increased attention in Bible
Class."
Milton, iV. »S'. — In the good providence of God, our esteemed
brother, the Eev. Enoch Barker, late of Fergus, Ont., was led to
assume the pastorate of this Cliurch upwards of six months ago. He
writes, "this field having been vacant over two j'ears, it is not
surprising, that weeds should have grown in the meantime. Some
of the evil effects of the long vacancy will probably never be remedied.
So far, there are no very material signs of improvement, but we
labour, and wait, and pray. The Ladies' Missionary Society organ-
ized since last Union Meeting, is working admirably, and will do
considerable towards augmenting our contribution to the general
Society."
1315 NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK DISTRICT.
Brooklyn and Beach Meadows, N. S. — Since Mr. Peckover's depar-
ture, last September, to Bangor Theological Seminary, this field has
been vacant. By the self-denial and kindness, however, of the
neighboring pastors, Eevds. Enoch Barker, and D. McGrregor, the
people have had one service a day since.
Pleasant River, Ohio, and Baker's Settlement, N. S. — For now
nearly a year, Mr. D. Hickey has been doing good work in this
large and rough field. Early this spring Mr. Hickey passed
creditably ihe prescribed examination, and was regularly ordained and
installed at Pleasant Eiver. He writes, "the sabbath and week-day
services are regularly kept up, and the general state of the church is
spiritually progressive. Recently some alterations and improvements
have been made in the interior of our chui-ch building, and a good
cabinet organ secured. At Baker's Settlement, some 10 miles distant,
the few members are earnest and liberal to the extent of their ability.
Divine Service hitherto has had to be conducted in a private house.
This difficulty, it is to be hoped, will soon be removed as strenuous
efforts are to be put forth this summer, to have a suitable building
erected before the approach of winter. There is reason to believe
that Congregationalism would commend itself to this spiritually
destitute people, provided there was a place of worship large enough
to accomodate them. As it now is, probably not one-fifth of the
inhabitants attend Divine Service. Were there a Church Building
Fund connected with our body, 1 would certainly make an appeal
for aid, for these worthy brethren. With the friends at Ohio, a
special effoi't was made in the first week in January, which brought
us some tokens for good. The church here now numbers 62, nearly
all of whom are of German descent."
Cornwallis, N. S. — Up to October last, Mr. Fuller, supplied
acceptably here, but since, he has been preparing for College with a
private tutor in a neighbouring county, and consequently unable to
preach here. Several attempts have been made to move the friends
to secure a pastoi", but up to the present without success. Experience
has already declared that the inevitable consequence must be serious
weed-growth.
Halifax, iV, *S'. — The Local Committee in course of the year did
its best to have some move made by the friends here, either in the
direction of re-opening their closed doors, or in winding up for the
present, but hitherto to little purpose.
Noel and Selniah, N. S. — Eev. Jacob Cox, the pastor, writes, "I
am very thankful to be able to inform you, that a spiritual awakening
has come to us in Moose Brook, (one of the stations) and we are to
receive a number of newly converted souls into the church, at the
June communion. 1 have wrought patiently during the year, and am
not sorry that my lot was cast here, in this creed-destroyed county."
Mr. Cox, in the same communication announces his intention to
go on a collecting tour to the Upper Provinces, to solicit aid in the
effort to complete their church edifices, now in course of erection.
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BEI7NSWICK DISTRICT. 133
Maitland North and South. — Rev. J. B. Hawes continues to
minister to this people, under trjnng circumstances. Unfortunately
an unholy stritie about church property with the Piesbyterians there
has greatly crippled the efforts of our brother for the time being,
although ultimately good may follow. Mr. Hawes, himself an
American, feels called upon to appeal to the American public, to lend
a helping hand in the erection of churches, at Maitland North and
South, and with this view, is to be absent from his field for the
summer. Mr. Fuller who supplies as best he may, whilst prosecuting
his literary studies, reports under date of May 3rd, " In Maitland
North, attendance small, as wo have no place, now that the church is
taken from us, to worship in, except a private dwelling house. In
Maitland South, we worship in the large, unplastered, well-seated
basement of the handsome, though unfinished Church. The attend-
ance here is good, as well as at my two out-stations, Urbania, and
Rock Road, which I visit monthly."
Economy, N. S. — This is Qteio ground to us, and is now under
report for the first time. It is an outgrowth of the same spirit which
induced the churches at Maitland, Noel, and Selmah, some j'ears ago
to separate themselves from the Presbyterian body, and unite wiih
us. Several of our ministerial brethren responded to the urgent
wish of the friends at Economy, that they should be visited, the
Missionary Secretary among the rest. In due time, a church was
organized and the Rev. Edwin Rose installed pastor over it. I will
allow one of its new deacons to speak for hmiself, as he reports on
behalf of the pastor, "Our church book shows we have 60 members.
Our growth has been mostl}^ from the ranks of the young. We have
a good Sabbath School, consisting of about 40 children. 1 think that
35 out of the 60 members, have been brought out of darkness into
light during the last 10 months. The work has not been spasmodic
but an earnest, steady work. In view of all the way ihe Lord has
led us, 1 cannot but exclaim, "Bless the Lord, O my soul."
Manchester, N. S. — The Rev. Jacob Whitman reports in labours
abundant, «' minded to do the Lord's work on foot, although, age and
exposure begin to tell on me. Our Sabbath School is encouiaging,
as also a new station I opened on the Bay Shore, 12 miles distant.
I am pained to witness so much destitution and poverty, but their
poor souls need some one to care for them. The Lord send help."
Margaree, C. B. — Mr. Peacock, writes, "There has been no
marked religious movement among us, yet we have not been without
encouragement. We are now trying to wipe away our little debt on
church property."
This survey of our Missionary labours in the Maritime Provinces,
reveals not a little that is hopeful and encouraging. If the Committee
felt that the state of the Treasury could justify devising moie liberal
things, there has not been for years a louder call than comes to us
to-day, to " go up and possess the land."
134
LIFE MEMBERS.
It has now become seIf-e\'idont that somethinfij more must be
attempted than barely to demonstrate our proverbial "tenacity of
life." With this view, some of our "honourable women" at the last
meeting of the Union, organized a Ladies' Missionary Society, to act
as an auxiliary to the Union, in judicious efforts to foster the spirit
of seii-help, in the so-called seeming " inheritances of weakness," and
in developing generally more denominational aggressiveness. Already,
I am glad no sa}^ this auxiliary has given a good report of itself,
enabling me, with good grace, to continue to subscribe myself, their
"brother and companion in tribulation, and in the Kingdom and
patience of Jesus Christ."
ALEX. McGEEGOR,
Secreta/ry.
Yarmouth, N. S., 30th May, 1878.
lifp: members.
By the donation of twenty dollars and upwards, at different periods, since the
commencemenc of the Society, iive names of the undermentioned,
marked (*) were life members of the Canada East Society.
Alexander, Charles, Montreal
Alexander, Mrs., by her husband
Alexander, Henry M., Montreal
Allworth, Rev. "W. H., Paris, Ont.,
by late N. Hamilton, Esq.
Allworth, Mrs. Rev. W. H., by the
same
Anderson, Mrs. A., Georgetown, Ont.,
by George Anderson
Anderson, George, Georgetown
Anderson, W., by G. Anderson
•Baylis, James, Montreal
Baylis, Mrs. James, by her husband
Baylis, Mary, by her father
Bayhs, Annie C, by do.
Baylis, Rosa E., by do.
Baylis, James Adams, by his father
Barber, Jas., Esq., Georgetown, Ont.
Barber. Mrs. James, do.
Baiber, Isabella, per James Barber
Barber, Miss H F, by Jas Barber, Esq
Barber, Jos., Esq., Georgetown, Ont.
Barber, I. M., BA.
Barber, Frederick, per Joseph Barber
Barber, Miss, per Josepii Barber.
Baiber, Miss Jessie, by Jos Barber.
Barber, Nellie, by Joseph Barber
Barber, W. M., per Joseph Barber
Barton, Mrs. J. C, Montreal, by her
husband
Bogart, D. D. Belleville, Ont.
Boyd, James, Vankleek Hill
Bray, Rev. A. J., Montreal
Burton, P. H., Montreal
Burton, Mrs. P. Jl., by her husband
Burton, Alfred, by his father
Burton, Edgar S., do.
Butters, Daniel, Montreal
Clark, J. P., Loudon, England
Clarke, Rev. W. F., Guelph, by late
Mr. E. H. Pottev, Brantford
Chapman, Rev. diaries, Plymouth,
Eng., by Thos. Robertson, Esq-
Clements," N. K., Yarmouth, N. S
Clements, Mrs. N. K., by her husband
Clements, E F , Yarmouth, N. S., by
N. K. Clements, Esq.
Cooper, James, Toronto, Ont.
Cridford, Miss, by the Kingston Cong.
S. School
Craig, Miss Jane, by do.
Cushuig, Charles, Montreal
Day, Rev. B. W., Cowansville, Que.,
by the Markham Sunday School
Dempster, Mrs. George, by her father,
the Rev. J. Wood.
.Dennis, Freeman, Yarmouth, N. S.
Dennis, Mrs. F., by her husband
Diploch, Miss, by the Kingston Sun-
day School
LIFE MEMBERS.
135
Dougall, John & Son, Montreal
Duti, Rev. Arch., by the Church at
Leniioxville
Dunn, Robert, Montreal
Dunn, Mrs. Robert, by her husband
Dunn, John M., by his father
Ebbs, Rev. Edward, by late Mr. Nor-
man Hamilton
Ebbs, Mrs. Rev. Ed., by her husband
Fenwick, Prof., Montreal, by late Gr.
Robertson, Sen. Esq.
Fenwick, G. S., Kingston, Ont.
Fenwick, Arthur M., Kingston, Ont.
*Fisher, Mrs. Doctor, Montreal
Foulds, John, Montreal [Wilkes
Gibson, Mrs. Rev. Dr., Chicago, by Dr.
Hendry, Mrs. Thos., Kingston, Ont.
Hibbard, W. R., Montreal
Hague, George, Montreal
Hamilton, Mrs. Norman, Pans, Ont.,
by her late husband
Hamilton, Elizabetli Sarah, Paris,
Ont., by her late father
Hannan, M., Montreal
Heath, John, Montreal
Hurst, Mrs. John C, by Joseph Bar-
ber, Esq.
Hutchins, Benjamin, Montreal
Ireland, William, San Francisco
Jackson, Rev. S. N., M.D. Kingston,
by James Smith, Esq.
Jackson, Mrs. S. N., by her husband
Jackson, John Holmes, by his father
Rev. Dr. Jackson
Jackson, Mfs. H. N. by her son, the
Rev. Dr. Jackson
Jamieson, R. C„ Montreal
Jamieson, Mrs. R. C. by her husband
Janes, Mrs. S. E. by late Norman
Hamilton, Esq.
Jarvis, J., Ottawa, by the Sunday
School
Deeming Mrs. John, by her late
husband
Lewis, David, Toronto
Linton, James, Montreal
Linton, Mrs. James, by her husband
Linton, Miss Mary, Montreal
Lyman, Henry, Montreal
Lyman, Mrs. Henry, Montreal
Lyman, S. J. do
Lyman, Theodore, do
Lyman, Theodore P., by his father
Lyman, Henry L, by his father
*Mayer, J. C, Toronto
Macdougal], William, Montreal
McUuimough, William, do
McEwen, John, Kingston, Ont., by
the Sabbath School
McGregor, Rev. Alex., Yarmouth, N.
S., by N. K. Clements, Esq.
McGregor, Mrs Rev. Alex., by Free-
man Dennis, Esq.
McGregor, Eben, Yarmouth, N. S.,
by Freeman Dennis, Esq.
McGregor, Rev. Dugald, by a member
of the Kingston Church
McLachlan, J. S., Montreal
McLachlan, Mrs. J. S. do.
McLachlan, Mrs. Wm., do.
McLachlan, William, do.
McLachlan, W. B., by his brother, J.
S. McLachlan, Montreal
McLachlan, Winifred, by her father
Mills, Mrs. J. E., London, England
Moss, George H, Montreal
Marling, Rev. F. H., New York, by
N. McEachern, Esq.
Nivin, Wm., Montreal
O'Hara, H., Bowmanville, Ont.
Potter, Mrs. E. H., by the late Mr.
E. H. Potter
Reikie, Rev. T^ M., by G. Robertson,
jun., Esq., Kingston
Ross, W. R., Montreal
Ross, Mrs., by her husband
Robertson, Robert, Lanark
Robertson, Mrs, George, sen., Kings-
ton, Ont.
Robertson, Geo., jun., Kingston, Ont.
Robertson, Mrs., George, jun , by her
husband
Robertson, B. W-, Kingston, Ont.
Robertson, William, Lanark, Ont.
Robertson, Mrs Wm.. by her husband
Robertson, Thomas, Montreal
Robertson, Mrs, Thomas, by her
husband
*Stewart, R. D., Philadelphia
Savage, Alfred, Montreal
Savage Harry, by the Kingston Cong.
Church
Savage & Lyman, Montreal
Sanderson, Rev. J. G., by the Ottawa
Sunday School
Smillie, W. C, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Smillie, Mrs. W. C, by her husband
Scott, Eben, Yarmouth, N. S., by
Freeman Dennis, Esq.
Spalding, Mrs. H. W., Montreal, by
her husband
*Tyler, Rev. W. H., Pittsfield, Mass.
U. S.
Turner, John, Toronto, Ont.
Unsworth, Rev. J., Georgetown, Ont.,
by James Barber, sen.
Unsworth, Mrs. Rev. J., Georgetown,
Ont.
136 SUMMARY OF OONTEIBUTTONS.
Waddington, W., Kingston, Ont. by Wilkes, T. Holmes, by his father
the Cong. Sunday School Wilkes, Cvbella C, by her father
Welding, W. E., Branttbrd Wilkes, Miss A D., by her father
Welding, Mrs. W. E,, do., by her Wilkes, James, Brantford, Ont.
husband Wilkes, Mrs. James, by her husband
Winks, George, Montreal Wilkes, Henry, by his grand-
Whitlaw, Charles, Paris, Ont. father, Dr. Wilkes
Wiiitlaw, Mrs. Charles, Paris, Ont. Wood, Rev. John, Toronto, by late
Whitney, N. S., Montreal Mr. E. H. Potter
Whitney, Mary, Montreal, bv Mrs. J. Wood, Mrs. Rev. John, by do.
E. Mills " Wood, Miss S. E., by Rev. John
Wilkes, Henry, D.D., LL.D., by M. Wood
F. &B.W." ' Wood, Henry L., by do.
Wilkes, Mrs. Rev. Dr. by her husband Wood, Peter Wentworth, Montreal
Wilkes, John Aston, by his father
SUMMAEY OF CONTEIBUTiONS, 1877-78.
ONTARIO WESTERN DISTRICT.
Brantford First $ 25 00 Stratford 24 00
Burford 40 25 Scotland 19 00
Douglas and Grarafraxa 15 H3 Sarnia , 19 16
Eramosa 18 00 Southwell 22 50
Embro 12 00 Tilbury 12 50
Fergus 1187 Warwick, Watford and Forest 55 75
Guelph Zion 6 00 St. Catharines last vr. |16 00,
" First Church 55 08 this year $13 65 29 65
Hamilton 75 00 Kincardine . .. 12 00
Howick and Turnberry 26 00 Annual Meeting, Guelph 22 00
London 50 00
Listowel 24 00 * $70154
Paris 138 50
ONTARIO MIDDLE DISTRICT.
Albion $ 10 00 Rugby, Edgar and Vespra... 58 35
Aoton 6 73 South Caledon 12 30
Lowmanville 43 75 StoufFville 67 94
Georgetown 62 80 Toronto Bond Street 150 00
Markham 2175 " Zion Church 100 00
Unionville 73 00 " Western Church 50 00
Manilla 35 00 " Northern last year.. 20 00
North Erin and Alton 17 11 Wiarton and Colpoy's Bay.. 32 45
Newmarket 5 00 Whitby 30 00
Pine Grove and Thistleton.. 45 75 '
Owen Sound 44 50 $886 43
ONTARIO EASTERN DISTRICT.
Athol and Martintown $ 79 73 Lanark Village 54 37
Belleville 40 00 VankleekHiU 15 61
Cobourg and Coldsprings. . . 72 60 Hawkes'-tury 5 77
Kingston First Church 432 65 Ottawa 37 50
Bethel 20 80 St. Andrews 9 50
Lanark, Middleville '77 $11 55
" " '78 38 20 $817 92
49 75
SUBSOBIPTIONS.
137
QUEBEC DISTRICT.
Brio-ham and Cowaiisville. . .$ 48 00
Eaton 10 50
Franklin, 1877 10 00
Fitch Bay 27 43
Granby. 40 00
Melbourne 10 00
Montreal Emmanuel 163 00
" Zion 193 36
" Calvary 22 00
Montreal Wesley 34 00
Quebec last year 61 00
" this year 29 00
Sherbrooke and Lennoxvilie. 142 00
Waterville 26 11
$818 70
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK DISTRICT.
Brooklyn and Beach Meadows! 14 07
Cheboo-ue, 1876-7 1 7 55
Liverpool 13 09
Milton 32 41
Manciiester 8 00
Noel, 1876-7 $ 7 74
" this year 30 00
37 74
Pleasant River 11 33
Margaree 5 00
St. John, N. B 94 00
Sheffield 78 72
Yarmouth, N. S 140 20
Collection at Annual Meeting
at Canning 24 43
$476 54
From Gorham Estate and Invested Funds $ 510 84
Small Suras, per Mr. Wood 8 00
Rev. Edward Ebbs 5 00
Colonial Miss. Societv, England , 775 17
Special Collections, J'uly, 1877, for debt 267 10
The following are Lists of Subscriptions^ of one dollar and
over^ and Collections, so far as furnished, all heing included
in the above Summary :
ONTARIO WESTERN DISTRICT.
IST. CHURCH BRANTFOBD.
Collected by Mrs. John Ott and Miss
Wisner.
James Wilkes $ 5 00
J.and F. Ott 2 00
Miss Davis 1 50
Edmund Yeigh 2 00
E. L. Goold 1 00
Chas. W. Whitney 1
James Woodyatt 1
James Smith
Small sums
Collection 10
Collected by Mrs. F. Charles
William Daniels $ 1 00
John Charles 1 00
Mrs. Charles 1 00
Henry Cox i 5 00
Mrs. Cox 5 00
Small sums 1 50
Collecteu by Miss E. Wooden
Mrs. R. Haywood 1 00
A. Pollard 1 00
John Keachie 1 00
Collected by Miss P Winskill
Mrs. Winskill 1 00
Small sums 2 75
Sabbath School 5 00
$25 00
$26 25
138
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Add. collection at meeting. ... 40 25
$ 4 00
Douglas and Garafraxa 15 33
Eramosa, no list 18 00
Enibro do 12 00
Fergus collection 1 87
Geo. Armstrong.. 10 00
11 87
Guelph Zion collection 6 00
Guelph First, no list 55 08
Hamilton, do 75
Ho wick and Turn berry do 26 00
London, do. '. 50 00
Listowel, do 24 00
PARIS.
Estate of N. Hamilton 50 00
C. Whittaw 20 00
A. H. Baird 4 00
H. Hart 3 00
W. H. Allworth,. 5 00
Mrs. Allworth 2 00
E. Allworth 1 00
J. Stokes.. .. 1 00
Miss Sovereign ; 100
D. Patton 1 00
D. Finlavson 100
Mrs. J. Tuflford 100
Miss Cooke 1 00
The Misses Tufford , 1 00
Miss J. Sovereign 1 00
Mrs. S. K. Baker 100
J. Best 1 00
Miss Wight 1 00
Geo. BalJard 1 00
J. Wight 1 00
F. D.Mitchell 1 00
R. Lowe 1 00
P. O'Connor 2 00
P. A. Chase 1 00
Robert Clarke 1 00
P. Buckley 1 00
Mrs. J. A. Baker 1 00
R. Campbell, Jr... 1 00
Dr. Cooke 1 00
R. Palmer 1 00
W. W. Clay 1 00
T. Walker 2 00
J. Brockbank 100
C. Arnold 1 00
J.H.Hackland 100
W. Watson 1 00
Mrs. Fry 1 00
T. Evans 1 00
Jas. Finlayson 1 00
Collections 14 75
S. subscriptions, 50 cents 4 00
Small sums 75
$138 50
STRATFORD, ONT.
John Sherman, Sr 2 00
A. Marshall 1 00
W. Marshall 1 00
George Birch 100
Philip Birch 1 00
James Sharman 1 00
D. W. Cummings 1 00
W. W. Cowan 1 00
Mrs. Reynolds 1 00
J. Hyde 2 00
Jos. Sharman 1 00
Small sums 4 60
Under one dollar 3 60
Collection at meeting 2 90
$24 00
SCOTLAND.
Collected by Miss Alice M. M. Hay.
Albert Foster $ 1 00
William Hay 100
AlonzoFoster 100
Augustus Malcolm 1 00
Geo. H. Malcolm 1 00
Remitted later 3 00
Small sums 1 00
$9 00
Collected by Miss Ida Foster.
James Beaton $ 2 00
Small sums 5 00
$7 00
Collected by Miss Eliza Eadie.
Small sums $ 3 00
$19 00
SOtlTHWOLD, (fROME.)
Mr. John Silcox $ 4 00
Mr. George Silcox 1 50
Mrs. W. Silcox 1 00
Mr. M.Lodge 1 00
Rev. W. J. Cuthbertson 2 00
Collection and sums under $1. 13 00
$22 50
Sarnia, no list $16 16
Tilbury 12 50
Warwick 29 00
Watford 5 00
Forest 21 15
St. Catharines 13 55
Kincardine 12 00
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
139
WESTERN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
TORONTO.
David Williams ....$ 5 00
J.B. Silcox 5 00
Thos. Sanderson 2 50
T. P. Haves 2 00
Mrs. T. P". Hayes..... 1 00
C. A. Moor 1 50
J. Roper and family 1 50
John Riley 1 00
MissM. Riley 1 00
Geo. Clotworthy 100
R. H. Flint 1 00
Jas. I-i. Armson 1 00
Jos. Greenfield 1 00
R. Darley 1 00
C. Brazier 1 00
Wm McDonald 1 00
Mrs. Russell 1 00
Jas. Shaw 1 00
W. Triggs 1 00
Miss Wvbrants 100
MissR.^Horton 100
Mrs. Waddell 1 00
Mrs. A. Charters 100
Mrs.G. Reid 1 00
Mr. Davis 1 00
Mr. Coombs 1 00
Wm Davidge 1 00
A friend 1 00
Smaller sums 10 56
$50 00
Received too late for the accounts.
GARAFRAXA, FIRST CHURCH.
William Boyse $ 1 00
George Gerrie 1 00
P. S. Martin 1 00
Wilson Ransom 100
Smaller sums 4 55
$ 8 55
GARAFRAXA, DOUGLAS CHURCH
T. Griffith 1 00
W. T. Blvth 1 00
R. T. Blyth 1 00
W. Douglas 1 00
R. Bichan 1 00
A. Lightbody 1 00
Mrs. Hill 1 00
John Hill, Jr 1 00
Smaller sums 1 05
112 05
GUELFH.
Mr. W. H. Maroon 1 00
Mrs. E. S. Boult 1 50
Mr. G.Howard 2 00
" W. Jones 1 00
" W.G.Taylor 1 00
" S. Hodgskin 10 00
« E. Brooking 1 00
Mrs. J. W.Lyon 1 00
" Law 1 00
Miss Hodgskin 2 00
Mr. B. H. Arms 1 00
" J. Crowe 10 00
" S. Greey 1 00
" T. Lawrence 1 00
" R. Mitchell I 00
Mrs. Budd 1 50
Mr. A. Worsley 1 00
Rev. J. Howell 1 00
Mr. D. Budgeford 1 00
Anon 2 00
Anon 1 00
Anon 1 00
Rev. Mr. Manchee 2 00
Sums under one dollar 7 23
Total $53 23
ONTARIO MIDDLE DISTRICT.
Albion $L0 00
Acton 6 73
BOWMANVILLE.
Collection 7 00
W. H.H 3 00
W. R. Climie 2 00
W . McM urtry 4 00
J. S. Bond 1 00
Henry U'Hara 2 00
A. D.Scott 2 00
A. C. Yait 1 00
J. H. Yait 1 00
W. S. Russell 1 00
R. Field 1 00
John R. Mitchell 1 00
N.S.Young 1 00
George Piggutt 1 00
SI. Bradshaw 1 00
Mrs. Shaw 2 00
R. R. Loscombe 1 00
Friend 1 00
Mrs. Farewell 1 00
H. W Reffell 1 00
J. Stephens ; 2 00
Mrs.McGill 1 00
" Dilling 2 00
Small sums 3 75
Total $43 75
140
STJBISeREPTIONS.
GEORGETOWN.
Mr. James Barber $20 00
Joseph Barber, Sr, John Hurst
life membership . 20 00
George Anderson 2 00
Mrs. Unsworth 2 00
Dr Freeman 100
Mrs. T. Clark 1 00
Mr. Hardy , 100
Joseph Barber 1 00
I. K. Barber 1 00
Henry Reid 1 00
John McCullough 100
Miss Zimmerman 1 00
Sums under one dollar ....... 2 50
$54 50
Public collection 8 HO
$62 80
TJNTONVILLE.
Collected by Mrs. Ed. Eckardt and
Mr. Dr. Eckardt.
M. M. Brathwaile and tamily..$10 00
Dr. and Mrs. Eckardt 10 00
Ed. Efkanit 5 00
Miss E. H. Sweeting 2 00
Mrs. Summerf'eldt 2 00
Miss. S A Eckardt 1 00
Hattie E. Eckardt 1 00
Maud M. Eckardt 100
Mable B. Echardt 100
D. B. Johnston 1 00
Mrs. J. Quartz 100
Homer Eckardt 100
Clarence Echardt 100
Miss C . A . Summerfeldt 100
H.P. Crosby 1 00
Harry Baker 1 00
Mrs. P. Eckardt 1 00
Mrs. J Wood 1 00
Miss R. Breckon 100
$43 00
Small sums 24 75
Collections 5 25
Total 73 00
Markham 21 75
Grand Total... $94 75
Manilla $35 00
North Erin 12 71
Newmarket 5 00
ALTON.
Missionary collection, Alton.. 2 40
H.J. Colwell 1 00
Mrs. H. Denny 1 00
$ 4 40
PINE GROVE, ONT.
W. Hartman $ 5 00
W. A. Wallis 4 00
Rev. W. W. Smith 4 00
Mrs. Snider 3 00
Silas Hartman 2 00
Wallace Brothers 2 00
Mackie & Watt 2 00
J. Rowntree 1 00
Keys & Hallet 1 00
Dr. Wilkinson 1 00
Mrs. Abell 1 00
Mrs. Mary Elliott 1 00
Henry Akam 1 00
J. Bennets 2 00
W. Jeftery 1 00
17 sums under a dollar 6 25
Collection 1 30
$37 55
THISTLETON, ONT.
Collection 2 20
J.T. W. Wallis 1 00
Mrs. J. T. W. Wallis 1 00
George Tupper I 00
John Watson, jr 1 00
John Reilly 1 00
R. Parsons 1 00
$ 8 20
OWEN SOUND.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Hindley. .. 5 00
Mr. W. Kennedy, sr 1 00
" James Kennedy 1 00
" Geo. Kennedy 1 00
" W. Kennedy,'sr 100
" Geo. Howell 1 00
Mrs. G. C. Creighton 1 00'
Mr. Geo. Inglis 1 00
« W. Q.Brown 1 00
" Geo. Nicol 1 00
" C. R. Wilkes 1 00
Mrs. E. W. Bishop 1 00
Mr. R. D. Kilbourne 100
Small sums 10 70
Collection 3 00
Collection at Websters' 4 00
" " Gruikbhanks 4 50
Supplemented by F. H. H . , . , 5 30
44 50
Less travelling expenses and
Post Office draft 4 50
$40 00
SUSSCEiPTIONS.
141
RUGBY.
Collected by Miss Susan Roberts.
Wm. Johnston . .$ 1 00
James Ball 1 00
Small sums 1 40
Collected by Miss A.gnes Harvie
Charles Harvie 2 00
Small sums 3 57
Collected by Miss Jannette McKinnel.
Small sums 6 50
Collection at Mass Meeting. . . 1 90
$17 37
Collected by Miss Margaret Addison
and Miss Harriet Gardner
ThosMcLeod 1 00
Thomas Addison 1 00
Mr. Thomas 1 00
S. T. Gardner 1 00
M. A. Thomas, missionary box 2 60
Small sums 4 00
Collected by Miss Nellie Richardson
and Miss Mary Cavanagh
P. Cavanagh 1 00
Walter Lauder 1 00
Mrs. Jamieson 1 00
R. Thomas 1 00
Rev. J. G. Sanderson 2 00
Sums under one dollar 7 50
Collection 3 98
VESPRA.
Collected by Miss Eliza Wood and
Miss Brown.
James Partridge 1 00
Edgar Brown 1 00
Sums under one dollar 6 65
Collected by Miss Gill and Miss Mc-
Gowan.
Sums under one dollar 4 25
$12 90
Total for Oro $58 35
SOUTH CALEDON. — $12 30
STOUFFVILLE.
Collectors, Mrs. C. D Mertens. Mrs.
Byrne, Misses Jermain and Daley,
and T.Millard.
CD. Mertens $ 2 00
J. Mertens 1 00
K
Mrs. Wheeler 1 09
Wm. B. Sanders 1 00
Mr.Smith 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. Silcox 4 00
James Nichol 1 00
Dr. Wilson I 00
Geo. Pavey 1 00
James Blackie 1 00
A. Morris 1 00
Wm. Pagan 1 00
Mrs. Dr. Freel 1 00
S. School Missionary boxes.. 6 00
Mr. and Mrs. T. Millard 2 00
Thos. Monkhouse 1 00
Joseph Monkhouse 1 00
Mrs. Reynolds 1 00
J. Manly 1 00
Thos. Robinson 1 00
Geo. Robinson 100
Wm. Leaney I 00
Collections at Public Meetings U 15
Sums under one dollar 24 79
$67 94
WHITBY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Ross Johnston $ 2 00
A Friend 2 00
Mrs. Burns 1 00
Mrs.Gerrie 1 00
Mrs. Byrne 1 00
Mrs. Howard 1 00
Mrs. Whitfield 1 00
S. Fuller 2 00
Sums under one dollar 4 00
$15 00
Share of S. S. Miss'y col 5 83
Amt of col'n. at Miss'y Meeting 4 55
Share of Com'n Service col... . 6 12
Total 31 50
Less amt pd for print'g posters 1 50
Balance $30 00
TORONTO.
Bond Street $150 00
Zion 100 00
Western, 1876-7 20 00
WIARTON AND COLPOY's BAY.
Wm.Bull $ 5 00
M. Bull 2 00
R. Robinson 2 00
Alice Bull 1 00
Collections sermons and meet'g 3 05
142
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Small sums 10 40
James Black 2 00
Hendrick Spragg I 00
Henry Spragg 1 00
Charles Whitcher 1 00
Jas. Brown 1 00
Small sums 3 00
$32 45
ONTARIO EASTERN DISTRICT.
MARTINTOWN.
Hugh Christie 2 00
Peter Christie 4 00
H. F. McDermid 3 00
A.F. McDermid 2 00
F. Mclntyre 1 00
A. Campbell 1 00
R. Smart 1 00
Mrs. McCallum 1 00
J.Toulds 1 00
Rev. D. Macallum 2 00
D. K. McCallum 2 00
Collections 3 1(5
$24 16
ATHOL.
A. Aird 1 00
D. Munroe 1 00
T.McEwen 1 00
A. McDougall 1 50
T. Munroe 1 50
J. Sinclair 1 00
J. McEwen and wife 3 00
S.Robertson 1 00
D. A. McDougall 2 50
Mrs. P. McDougall 1 00
Mrs. D. McEwen 100
A. &D. McDougall 1 00
P. A. McDougall 1 00
D. Kened}^ and wife 2 00
D. P. McDougall 1 00
J. McDermid 1 00
J. Begg 2 00
Fin lay Sinclair 2 00
Mrs. McColl 1 25
P. J. McEwen 1 00
A. McEwen 1 00
D. McEwen 1 00
Miss E. Macallum 1 50
Rev. D. Macallum and iamilv 6 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenedy ". 10 00
<p0l lections 7 46
155 21
BELLEVILLE.
Rev. A. O. Cossar 4 00
A. Christie 5 00
E. W. Holton 2 00
A. G. Northrup 2 00
Mrs. Watkin 1 00
Mrs. Climie 1 00
Mrs. Watson 1 00
F. Jellett 1 50
R. White 1 00
J.D. Climie 1 00
J. B. Drewey '..... 1 00
T.J.Emerson 1 50
W. A. Roblin 1 00
A. Robertson 2 00
Thomas Wills 1 00
MissM.Annany 100
Dr. Hope 1 00
Dr. Hamilton I 00
H. Wallbridge 1 00
Under $1,17 subscriptions... 8 05
Sums under 30 cents 1 95
$40 GO
COLDSPRINGS.
Missionary Subscriptions, 1877-78.
James Ford 2 00
Thomas Nixon 5 00
Mrs. Watt 1 00
Miss Jane 1 )avidson 1 00
Mrs. M. Eagleson 1 00
John C. Rosevear 1 00
Alexander Hoskin 1 00
George Avery 1 00
George Heut 1 00
Mrs. John Davidson 1 00
James Pedley 1 00
Hugh Pedley 2 00
Small sums 8 00
$26 00
COBOURG LIST.
Fields Bro 10 00
John Field, Sr 2 00
F. W. Field 2 00
Wm.Toms 1 00
J.P. Field 1 00
G. J.Wilsons 1 00
Guillett & Bickle 1 00
John Mclntyre 1 00
Mrs. Deering 1 00
Mrs. Hayden 1 00
J. & S.Clark 1 00
H. Evans 1 lO
Rev. J. Kenner 100
James Stewart 1 00
Mr. Palmer 1 00
John Wellwood 1 00
SUBSCEIPTIONS.
143
James Wellwood 1 00
Small sums 6 55
Colloctions 7 05
$36 60
KINGSTON FIRST CONG. CHURCH.
Geo. S. Fenwick 100 00
Geo. Robertson 100 00
Mrs. Thomas Hendry 60 00
Mrs. Geo. Robertson, Sr 50 CO
Bev. S. N. Jackson, to make
his son, John Holmes Jack-
son, a life member 20 00
Sabbath School 16 00
F. Osborn 10 00
Ira A. Breck 5 00
Thomas Robertson 5 00
Wm. Osborn 5 00
Thomas Hendry 5 00
Thomas Hendry, 1877 4 00
W. D. Hendry 4 00
Percy Clark 2 00
P. R. Henderson 2 00
Mrs. Folger, Sr 2 00
Wm. Hay ward 2 00
Robert Meek 2 00
J. Driver 2 00
T. Savage, Sr 2 00
J. F. McEwan 2 00
M. Bruyier 2 00
Mrs. Waddingham 1 00
John Holmes 1 00
J. H. McFarlane 1 50
E. Chatterton 1 00
H. Jack 1 00
Geo. McMahon 1 00
Rev. R. McKav 1 00
Mrs. P. R. Henderson 1 00
R. Hendry, Jr 1 00
J. Reed, 1877 1 00
J. Reed, 1878 1 00
Mrs. McfCelvey 1 00
W. Hardy 1 00
D. Spence 1 00
T. Savage, J r 1 00
W. Neish 1 00
Mrs. Henry Folger 1 00
J. Reed 1 00
J. Derry 1 00
James Henderson 1 00
James Boyd 1 00
Geo. Lee 1 00
J. McKel vey 1 00
H. Savage . .' 1 00
Geo. Thomson 1 00
Small sums under one dollar. 5 15
$4.^2 65
BETHEL CHURCH, KINaSTON.
Rev. W. M. Peacock ,3 00
J. R. Rattenburv 1 50
B. W. Robertson 10 00
D. McEvven 1 00
Smaller sums 5 30
$20 80
MIDDLEVILLE.
For 1876-77.
Wm. Ailkin, omitted last year 1 00
James Campbell 4 00
John Affleck 2 00
Thomas Bullock 2 00
James Robertson 2 00
Rev. R. Brown 1 00
Miss Delia Brown 1 00
John L. Brown 1 00
Giles G. Brown 1 00
Wm. Croft 1 00
Wm. Croft 1 00
Emma Croft 1 00
Annie and Marg. Crott 1 00
Rob.P. Affleck 1 25
Wm. Affleck I 00
A. R. Mclntyre 1 00
Wm. Craig 1 00
Wm Stead 1 00
Mary Angus 1 00
Janet Craig .... 1 00
John Mcllwraith 1 00
Wm. Guthrie 1 00
James Watt 75
Thomas Molyneux 1 00
Rosetta collection 1 50
Middleville collection 6 70
Hopetown collection 1 35
Six contributions of 50 cts. . . . 3 00
Smaller sums 3 00
$45 55
For 1877-78.
Robert Affleck 2 00
Wm. Croft 1 00
Mrs. Croft 1 00
Willie and Arthur Croft 1 00
John McHwraith 1 00
Robert Affleck, Jr 100
Arch. Taylor 1 00
John Somerville, Sr I 00
Miss Angus 1 OO
A. R. Mclntyre 100)
John Givens 1 00'
Wm. Craig . . 1 25-
Robert P. Affleck 1 OQ)
M4
gUBgCltlPTIONS.
Rev. R. Brown 1 00
Delia Brown 1 00
John L. Brown I 00
Giles G. Brown 1 00
James Campbell 2 00
James Robertson 2 00
Wm. Guthrie 1 00
Edward Ball 100
Thomas Bullock 1 00
Subscriptions ol" 50 cts 4 60
Smaller sums 8 35
$38 20
Li NARK VILLAGE.
Miss Shanks I 00
Collection at Miss. Meeting. . . 2 02
Rev. John Brown 3 00
M. A. Brown 1 00
Boyd Caldwell 8 00
John Mair, Jr 6 00
John Mair,Sr 1 00
R. Robertson 5 00
Thomas Baird 2 00
Robert Watt 1 00
Thomas Watt 3 00
Mrs. Salmond.... 1 00
William Robertson 2 00
John Robertson 5 00
John Rankin 2 00
John Rankin, Jr 2 00
James Richardson 1 00
W. A. Han.na 1 00
Sums under one dollar 5 37
Mr. Shaw I 00
Thomas Francis 1 00
Sums under one dollar 8 15
$54 37
VANKLEEK HILL, — $15 61
ITAWKESBURYj— $5 77
ST. ANDREWS, QUE.,
visited b}' Eastern District
Deputation, collection 9 50
OTTAWA.
Collected bv Mrs. Stephens, and
Misses Leggo and Wood.
Hon. L Burpee, M.P 5 00
Rev.J. Wood. 5 00
James Jarvis 3 00
John Lamb 2 00
Mrs. Mathewman 1 00
Mr. Thackery 1 00
H. Pritchard.. 1 00
Mrs. Stephens 1 00
Miss Lowe 1 00
T.Mingard 1 00
Miss Leggo 1 00
J. W.H. Watts 1 00
J. Ruthven 1 00
W. Kerr 1 00
James D. Eraser 1 00
Small sums 1 50
Congregational Sunday School 10 00
$37 50
QUEBEC DISTRICT.
EATON, — $10 50
FRANKLIN, 1876-7— $10 00
FITCH BAY.
L. P. Adams 1 00
L. Magoon 1 00
John J. Christie 1 00
Small sums 1 25
$4 25
TICHURST NEIGHBORHOOD, FITCH BAY &c.
Collected by Miss Jennie Brainard.
Mr. T. B. Brainard 1 00
Dea J. Brainard 1 00
Israel Brainard 1 00
I. B. Brainard 1 00
Mrs. A. J. Brainard 1 00
Miss Alma J. Brainard 2 00
Small suras 3 00
$10 00
Miss'y Meeting Li bby's Mil Is.. 8 39
Do do Fitch Bay.. 4 79
COWANSVILLE.
B. W. Day 5 00
W.P.Carter 5 00
Mrs.D. Mair 5 00
Mrs. Mackay 2 00
W. Macfarlane 1 00
Sums under One Dollar 6 50
$24 50
BRIGHAM.
B.W.Day 5 00
Mrs. E. O. Brigham 5 00
Sums under One Dollar 13 50
23 50
Total, Co wansville&Britrham $48 00
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
14S
GnAOTT,— $40 00
MELBOURNEj — $10 00
MONTREAL ZION CHURCH.
SundavSchool Collection Fund
votetl by the Scholars 50 00
Half of Collections at Mission'y
Prayer Meetings 13 11
Ladies' Missionar}' Association 25 00
Rev. Dr. Wilkes,"to make his
grandson Henry Wilkes a
life member 20 00
H. K. Ritchie 10 00
J. C.Barton 10 00
Robert Mills 10 00
Rev. A.J. Bray 5 00
'J'homas Robertson 5 00
John Heath 5 00
Jonathan Brown 5 00
W. M. Mooney 5 00
W. George Beers 5 00
J. W. Taylor H 00
Mrs. Walker 2 00
Mrs. Wilkes 2 00
H. Birks 2 00
Frederick Massey 2 00
S. W. Boyd 2 00
H. W.Walker 2 00
Mrs. Grafton 1 50
Miss Wilkes 1 00
F. Grose 1 00
WiUiamNivin 1 00
Mrs. Rodden 1 00
J. WiUiamson 1 00
Alexander Black 1 00
J. VV. Curtis 1 00
Sums under One Dollar 1 75
193 36
MONTREAL, EMMANUEL CHURCH, — $165.
P. H. Burton 20 00
George W. Moss 20 oO
J. S.McLachlau 15 00
R.W. Cowan 10 00
$65 00
(Other names to follow.)
MONTREAL, CALVARY CHURCH.
Rev. J L Forster 5 00
J. R. Dougall 6 00
P. W. Wood 4 00
T. Macauley 2 00
W. P. Weir 1 00
Benjamin Lame 1 00
R. W. McLachlan 100
Mrs. Dr. Eneas 100
Sums under One Dollar. 2 00
$22 00
MONTREAL.
Wesley Church 27 35
Rev. James Roy, M.A 4 00
H. N. Roy's Missionary Box 2 65
$34 00
QUEBEC
Proceeds of Liecture by Rev. J.
F. Stevenson, LL.B 25 00
Rev. H. D. Powis 4 00
$29 00
SHERBROOKE AND LENNOXVILLK.
Peter McLellan 1 50
Mrs. C. Brooks 2 00
Miss S. E. Brooks 1 00
Mr. George Paton 2 00
xMrs. S. A. Hurd 2 00
S. A. Hurd 1 00
Thomas S. Morey.. 5 00
Mrs. Rogers 1 00
S.Tuck 2 00
William White 2 00
H.Wilson 1 00
.lames Burton 1 00
Thomas So'mers 1 09
W. F. Somers 1 00
M. McKechnie 2 00
W. A. Farwell 1 00
Rev. A. Duff and Mr. D 10 00
E. Hamilton Duff 2 00
C. W. Bryant 1 50
J.McNicol 1 00
Andrew Paton 5 00
Miss S. Boyd 1 00
Mrs. Walton 2 00
Mr. andMrs. J. Fos8 2 00
E. M. Foss 1 00
Miss McKechnie 100
T. E. Read 1 00
W. Caird 1 00
J. H. Kathan 1 00
William Moffatt 1 00
R. Richards 2 00
Joseph Loring 1 00
W. M. Gilkerson 1 00
J. M. Daigneau 1 00
Edward Hargrave 3 00
Mr. Henderson .,,,.,, . .,,.,. I 00
146
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
E.A.Dickinson.. 150
S. B. Sanborn 3 00
T. J. Tuck 4 00
H. Hubbard 2 00
H. C. Wilson 1 00
E. G.Brooks 1 00
S. B. Jencks 1 00
William Addie 2 00
S. W. Jencks.. 1 00
Robert Davidson 1 00
S. F. Moray 5 00
J. S. Mitchell I 00
Miss Myson 1 00
Mr. J. Whyte 2 00
James Eadie 2 00
James C. Myson 2 00
Mrs. Gendron 1 00
C. H. Fletcher 2 00
S.J. Foss L 00
Neil Dinning 1 00
P. Hubbard 2 00
E. W. Abbott 2 00
R. P. Strickland 1 00
T.M. Mallorv 1 00
G. W.Tavlor 1 00
Robert Mitchell 2 00
Capt. McKenzie 2 00
A. Stevens 2 00
Misses Ball 8 00
Mrs- R. Mitchell 1 00
Miss Agnes Mitchell 100
E. J. Brooks 2 00
John Hall 1 00
Francis Mitchell 1 00
A Friend 2 00
J. G. Robertson 8 00
J. L. Johnston 8 00
Sums under one dollar 10 80
WATERVILLE.
Collected by Mrs. Freeland and
Miss Allan.
Rev. G. Purkis 2 00
Mrs. R. Freeland 1 00
William McKav 1 00
John Mcintosh 1 00
Sums under a dollar 13 50
This with $7.61 collected at
Missionary Meeting, makes
the contribution... $26 11
BEACH MEADOWS. — $4 07.
CORNWALI.IS.
1876-7 7 00
Union Meeting collection, 1878 24 43
$31 43
CHEBOG UE — 1 876-7.
{Too late Jor accounts.)
Collected by Miss Alice Crosby, A.
Pinckney and M. Cllarke.
Mrs. Hammond 1 00
Rev. J.Shipperlev 1 00
Collections '. 8 00
Small sums 7 55
$17 55
1877-8.
Rev. J.Shipperlev 2 00
Mrs. B. D. Robin's 1 00
Mr. W. Halev 1 00
Mr. D. Kelley 1 00
Mr. J. Hilton 1 00
Mr. B.D, Robbins 1 00
Mr. H. D Dennis 1 00
Mrs. W. Harmon 1 00
Collection 1 84
Small sums 45
$11 29
LIVERPOOL. — $6 72.
Ladies' Home Missionary Soci-
ety $6 37
$13 09
MANCHESTER. — $8 00.
MARGAREE.
1876-7 10 00
1877-8 5 00
$15 00
MILTON.
Hon. Freeman Tupper $ 4 00
Miss Experience Tupper 5 90
W. H. Freeman 4 00
Allan Tupper 1 00
Jedidiah Tupper 1 00
Nathan Tupper 1 80
Frederic G. Tupper 1 00
E. H. Freeman 100
E. Barker '. 2 80
Small Sums. 1 10
Collection 81
Ladies' Home Missionary Soci-
etv 11 00
NOVA SCOTIA.
BROOKLTN.
Ladies' Home Miss. Society... |10 00
$31 91
Less expenses of Mr Hickey. . . 50
$32 41
SUBSCBIPTIONS.
147
NOEL.
Collected by Miss Eliza
McKean & Miss Bessie
Sterling, 1876-7 $ 5 89
Do. bv Miss Libbie
Faulkner. 1 75
$ 7 74
1877-8
Ladies' Missionary Society... 30 00
$37 74
OHIO.— $3 78.
PLEASANT RIVER. — $11 33.
Mr. and Mrs. Burnaby 1 00
Alden Waterman . . . .' 2 00
Mrs. D. Freeman 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. Hickey 4 00
Smalls sums 4 55
13 55
Less expenses of delegation ... 6 00
$7 55
Too late for account additional $2 62
YARMOUTH.
Freeman Dennis, to constitute
Mr. Eben Scott a life member$25 00
N. K. Clements, to constitute
E. F. Clements a life mem'r 25 00
Robt. Ellinwood 15 00
Jonathan Horton 10 00
Dennis Horton 4 00
E. F.Clements 5 00
W.F. Sterritt 5 00
Jacob Crosby 5 00
J. D. Dennis 5 00
J. D. Horton 2 00
John Crawlev .... 2 00
E. S. Williams 2 00
Sheldon Lewis 2 00
C. W.Clements 1 00
William Perry 1 00
James E. Elements 2 (0
Mrs. E. S. Williams 1 00
F. R. S. Mildon 1 00
Eben. Scott 4 00
Rev. A. McGregor and wife. . . 6 10
Sabbath collection. 16 60
Thomas Ritchie 1 00
$140 70
Less 50 cts. for P. 0. order. . 50
^ NEW BRUNSWICK.
KESWICK RIDGE.
1876-7, additional 1 00
1878-9, (No list) 15 00
$16 00
SHEFFIELD, N. B.
H. P. Bridges, 1876-7 4 00
1877-8.
Ladies' Home Miss. Society.. 29 00
Collected bv Louisa Burpee.
Thos. Logan, Esq. Frederictonf 8 00
Mrs. Dr. Bridges I 00
D. H.Burpee 1 50
Mr. D. H. Burpee 1 00
Mrs. George Burpee 1 00
George F. Burpee 1 00
Moses Burpee 1 00
Louisa Burpee 1 00
Tyler C. Burpee 1 00
Sums under one dollar 160
Mr. Joseph Burpee 1 00
Mrs. F. B. Jewett 1 00
Rev. J. Barker 2 50
Mrs. Barker 2 50
Miss Lizzie Barker 1 00
$26 10
Collected by Miss Annie Harrison.
Hon. C. Harrison $ 2 00
Miss M. Harrison 1 00
Hon. A. Harrison 2 00
Mrs. A. Harrison 2 00
Mr. Jas. Harrison 1 00
Mrs. Jas. Harrison 1 00
$ 9 00
Collected by Miss Lottie R. Upton.
Mr. James Burpee I 1 00
Mr. C. J- Burpee 1 00
Mrs G. J. Burpee 1 00
Mrs. James Harrison I 00
Mrs. Clayton 1 00
Miss Periey 1 00
Mr. Arch'd Baker 2 00
Mr. Charles Burpee 2 00
Mrs. Chas. Bridges 1 00
Lottie R. Upton 1 00
Under one dollar 62
Mrs. Isaac Tavlor 2 00
14 62
$140 20
Revenue from Gorliam Estate
and other Trust Funds 510 84
$49 72
ST .TOHN.
No list , $94 00
148
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS,
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS FOR THE DEBT, JULY, 1877.
ONTARIO WESTERN DISTRICT.
Burford,|4 80, Scotland, $1 85
Yates, II 50 $ 8 15
Paris, $12 50, Embro, |15 00,
Listowel, $5 00 32 50
Eramosa, $6 00, Warwick and
Forest, $8 :!2 14 32
Sarnia,$3 25,Brantford,$5 00
Hamilton, $25 00 33 25
St. Catharines, .f5 15, Tuns-
berry, $3 00 S 15
Howick, $7 16, Douglas and
Garafraxa, $6 50 13 66
$110 03
ONTARIO MIDDLE DISTRICT.
Toronto Zion, $16 00, Toronto
Western, $10 00 $26 00
Wiarton, $3 12, Oro, $7 80,
Stouffville, $10 00 20 92
Alton and N. Erin, $4 68, Pine
Grove, $2 00 6 68
Markham and IJnionville 5 00
Manilla, $7 00, Owen Sound,
$5 00 12 00
Wliitby, $5 00, Toronto North-
ern, $6 00 11 00
$81 60
ONTARIO EASTERN DISTRICT.
Ottawa, $6 00 and $4 00,
Lanark, $4 00 14 00
Martintown and Athol 6 50
Belleville 3 00
$23 00
QUEBEC DISTRICT.
Montreal Zion $ 6 25
Gran by, $8 25, Fitch Bay,
$5 00 13 25
Waterville ,.... 2 50
Sherbrooke and Lennox ville. . 17 00
$39 00
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Noel, $7 00, Sheffield, $6 00.. $13 00
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THE SEVENTEENTH
OF THE
Canaba C0ngrf8ttti0ital Jlnbian JHteionari) S*0ckti),
INSTITUTED IN 1860.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, IN LONDON,
JUNE 6th, 18(8
f
OFFICE BEx\RERS FOE 1878-Y9.
President :
JAMES H. RICHARDSON, M.D., M.R.C.S. (Eng.)
Vice-Presidents :
Revs. J. A. R. Dickson, S. N. Jackson, M.D., J. F. Stevenson, LL.B., J. B.
SiLcox, and George Hague, Esq.
Secretary :
Rev. James Howell, Guelph, Ont.
Treasurer :
J. Charles Copp, Esq., 65 Grosvenor Street, Toronto.
Directors :
Revs. R. Robinson, Joseph Unsworth, Charles Duff, John Wood, H. D.
Powis, and W. H. Warriner, and Messrs. David Higgins, James
Farquhar, J. D. Nasmith, C. A. Moor, George Scott, and J. Adams.
Auditors :
Messrs. James McDunnough and William Freeland.
A bequest to the Society must be made at least six months before tlie
death of the person making it, and must contain the name of the Treasurer,
directing him to apply the amount to the benevolent uses of the Society.
AJSTNTTAL MEETING. l^t
PEOCEE DINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING.
The Annual Meeting of the Canada Congregational Indian
Missionary Society was held on Thursday, 6th June, 1878, (in con-
nection with the meetings of the Congregational Union) in London.
H. J. Clark, Esq., Toronto, occupied the chair; and the Eev.
E. C. W. McGoll, B.A., was appointed Secretary.
The Rev. W. H. Allworth opened the proceedings with prayer.
In the absence of the Secretary, Rev. W. W. Smith, the Annual
Report was read b}' Mr. J. C. Copp, of Toronto, who also presented
his report as Treasurer.
On motion, both these reports were received and adopted.
The Rev. John Wood moved that the following be the Officers
for the ensuing year: — President, James H. Richardson, M.D., M.R.
C.S. (Eng.) ; Vice-Presidents, Revs. J. A. R. Dickson, S. N. Jackson,
M.D., J. F. Stevenson, LL.B.,'J. B. Silcox, and George Hague ,Esq. ;
Secretary, Rev. James Howell, Guelph, Ont. ; Treasurer, J. Charles
Copp. Esq., 65 Grosvenor street, Toronto; Diiectors, Revs. R.
Robinson, Joseph Unsworth, Charles Duff, John Wood, H. D. Powis,
and W. H. Warriner, and Messrs. David Higgins, James Farquhar,
J. D. Nasmith, C. A. Moor, George Scott, and J. Adams ; Auditors,
Messrs. James McDunnough and William Freeland.
The Rev. C. Duff moved, and the Rev. J. R. Black seconded,
that Rev. J. I. Hindley be appointed to lay the claims of the Society
before the public missionary meeting to-night. — Carried.
It was intimated that the U. C. Bible Society had made a grant
to the Society of a number of Ojibway New Testament.
On motion the thanks of this Society were ordered to be con-
veyed to the U. C. Bible Society for this gift.
The Rev. John Wood closed the meeting with prayer.
E. C. W. MoCOLL,
Minute Secretary.
152 iJSTNUAL REPORT.
SEYENTEENTH ANNUAL EEPOET.
In the midst of many discouragements and changes, the directors
have endeavoured to carry on that part of the Lord's work among
the Indians, which has fallen to their share as well as ihey, with
anxious thought and prayer could plan, and as fast as the number
of missionaries and the funds at their command would allow.
A great a'ivance has been made the past year, by establishing
Mr. Lister as a permanent missionary in the North, at Mississagua
River; so that during the whole year the work of the Gospel has
been carried on, in connection with the station. Miss Eaylis spent
her seventh summer at Spanish Eiver, teaching and visiting among
the Indians, when for a limited time she was assisted by Miss Black-
lock of Cornwall. Our Indian brother, Mr. Walker, has done good
service for another year at the Saugeen Reserve. Mr. James
Nawageshig interpreted for Miss Baylis, and Mr. James McKay, of
Owen Sound, assisted Mr. Lister both in teaching and building for
four months last summer. These have comprised the missionary
staft for the year. We have our eyes longingly on the farther West,
and would be glad to send Mr. Lister, who is admirably adapted for
such an enterprise, to the Ojibways and Crees of Manitoba and the
North West Territory We pray for the opening of that door, and
when the increase of friends and funds opens it, we are ready to
enter.
FRENCH BAY, SAUGEEN.
This is our chief station. On the Saugeen Reserve, Lake Huron.
As showing the advance of civilization, a new post office has been
established for the Indian population — " Chippeway Hill P. O."
Mr. William Walker, who has been seven or eight years in
charge of the church, was set apart to the work of the christian
ministry by ordination, on 25th July last. The Revs. R. Robinson,
J. I. Hindley, and W. W. Smith, took part in the solemn service.
The Indians at this station are never wear}^ of meetings. They wiil
gladly attend any day, and all day. This disposition to wait on the
Lord in public, makes it easy to our Indian brother, Mr. Walker, to
secure good congregations for his " Revival Meetings," which he
carries on with great vigour for several weeks every autumn and
winter. Many have been blessed at these services; especially large
numbers of young people. The membership at present is nearly
sixty ; and the directors are not aware of any families now residing
in the settlement who have not abandoned paganism j there may
perhaps be an individual or two. The young men under Mr.
Walker's leadership have formed themselves into a " Christian Asso-
ciation," in imitation of the Y. M. C. A. of the cities. By this
agency Mr. Walker gets hold of intelligent young Indians, who
although they have not professed Christ in church membership yet
are brought under the influences of gospel ordinances and fellowship.
He reports this branch of the work as very flourishing. Prayer-
meetings and household prayer are faithfully urged and faithfully
attended to. The recent Indian Act puts it now in the power of any
intelligent and energetic Indian to sever his communal relation to
his tribe, and become " enfranchised," and begin the world for him-
self, with the fee-simple of any unoccupied lot in the Eeserve, which
he may clear up and make into a farm. The Indians are slow to
adopt novelties, but we may expect, after they see a few successful
exmples of enfranchisement, some of our educated young men at
French Bay to develop into successful farmers. We are sorry to
say that Mr. Walker has recently suffered a great affliction, in the
death of his youngest daughter.
MISSISSAGUA RIVER.
Our next station in importance is Mississagua Eiver, on the
north shore, Georgian Bay. When Mr. Lister went up last spring
he found that, the pagan chief had been baptized by the Romish
priests, and then induced to break open our new unoccupied school
and seize it for a dwelling. He was. when left to himself, ashamed of
what he had done, and without any particular urging gave Mr. Lister
possession, and helped to make the house clean and tidy. Mr. Lister
at once began with a school for the children, and the attendance for
the whole year has averaged about twenty. Although these pagans
send their children to school '* they fight shy," Mr. Lister reports,
of the preaching as yet. Late in the summer, when Mr. Lister was
at Owen Sound, visiting his family, a Jesuit priest again appeared on
the scene, Mr. McKay only being there, teaching and building. He
first suggested a post for Mr. McKay, as a teacher under them ; fail-
ing in this, he called the Indians together in council, night after
night, to get them to petition the government to have us removed.
But the scheme failed ; we had already obtained official sanction for
our missionary operations — (white men are not allowed, under ordin-
ary circurastances,to reside on Indian Eeserves),— and the government
agent told them, " It was too late." Since that date, the government
have notified all " Half-breeds," and others not considered as Indians,
to remove from the Eeserve by 1st May, 1878. How this will affect
our Mission, remains to be seen ; but it will probably be favourable,
as removing to some other locality the (hitherto) Eomish element
at Mississagua. Mr. Lister removed his family to this post in
October last, and reports good health and abundant labour all winter.
SERPENT RIVER,
Lies 2.5 miles east of Mississagua. There was scarcely any snow
last winter, and Mr. Lister started on a keen winter's day, to skirt
154 AimtTAL REPORT.
the rocky shore on skates. He had, however, miscalculated the
difficulties of the way and had to pass the night as best he could, in
company of a roaring tire, but without blankets. He found the
Indians (who still profess paganism), very kind and hospitable.
They are advancing too in civilization — the influence of Christianity
indirectly reaching them. We fear our funds will not allow our
maintaining a school among them this summer; but as several of
these families are frequently found at the other stations, they will
still have some advantages and the missionary will visit the Indian
hamlet at Sei-pent Eiver as often as possible, in his mission boat,
during the season.
Twenty miles further east is
SPANISH RIVER.
At this place, where are saw mills, there are always Indians
employed in the summer. They live in shanties and wig-wams and
send their children to Miss Baylis' school. Numbers of these Indian
girls and boys are now growing up to adult age, with a good founda-
tion of Scriptural knowledge obtained in the Mission School. Last
autumn, some of these Indians were so impressed with the advantages
of christian teaching, that they told Miss Baylis they would, when
she left Spanish River for the winter, remove to Mississagua, to be
within the reach of Mr. Lister's ministrations. Miss Baylis has
collected the gifts of the friends of our work in the city of Montreal,
and is now at her post again. The over-fatigue of last year, con-
sequent on her holding three or four Sabbath services, in addition to
teaching and visiting all the week, has induced the directors to
counsel her to confine her Sabbath work to the Indians; leaving the
white residents to resources they ought to be able to provide for
themselves.
Other places in the same region, as
SHE-SHE-GWAHNING, LACLOCHE AND LITTLE CURRENT,
are visited during the season of open water, as often as possible. At
most of these lake points, Indians from the far north toward the
Hudson Bay, come down for two or three months in summer to
trade. And the gospel can thus be carried into the vast interior, far
more than we can perhaps ever know anything about in this world.
The Rev. James Howell has visited many parts of Ontario and
Quebec, collecting for the Society. We have to thank many kind
friends everywhere for their continued confidence and gifts. The
great depression of business has made it difficult for any benevolent
society to collect an adequate support; yet we present this report
without any actual debt on the Society. We hope for better times
during the year we now enter, and we earnestly appeal to our friends
to assist in the important work of sending the gospel to the remnant
ANNUAL REPORT. 155
of the people that fomerly occupied the whole of the country which
has now passed into our possession.
During the year the Society sustained a great loss in the death
of three of its officers — the Rev. William Clarke, of Dresden, the
Eev. Henry Sanders, of Hamilton, and Mr. Geo. Snarr, of Toronto. Of
these brethren, Mr. Clarke had been by far the longest in connection
with the Society, and had done the greatest amount of work for it.
He was also the best known to the subscribers, as he for years had
collected the funds. He was deeply intei-ested in all that concerned
the Indians, whether of an educational, or a spiritual character. He
frequently, while his health permitted him, made visits to the
mission stations, and preached the gospel to the Indians located
there, and also to many wandering bauds that frequently come
towards the front for trading purposes. His labors for the Society
were unremitting and he was the means under God of accomplishing
a great deal in furtherance of its objects. The Eev. W. W. Smith,
Secretary for four years, having removed to a pastorate in the
province of Quebec, has resigned his office, and the Eev. Mr. Howell
has been asked to fill the vacancy. The Treasurer's Statement ,duly
audited, is herewith presented. All which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES HOWELL,
Secretary pro-tem,
Toronto, 1878.
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157
Gj^JSTJ^XD^^
CONGREGATIONAL INDIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES, 1877-8.
ONTARIO.
Per Treasurer, Collection and
Subscriptions
$3 75
AYLMER,
S. S. Glutton, and J. Crawford 1 00
C. M. Nairn and A. Conn 1 00
Friends 1 00
Small sums 75
$3 75
ARNPRIOR.
D.J. McLean 1 00
George Wilson 1 00
Andrew Russeil 1 00
Tliomas Martin and E. Cross. 1 00
George Ballard and R.Daimage i 00
Small Slims 1 50
$6 50
ALMONTE.
Robert Peacock 1 00
James Robertson 1 00
William Thorburn.... 1 00
J. H. Wylie I 00
R. W. & Co....: 1 00
W . Templeman & Paterson.. 1 00
Small sums 1 25
$7 25
ANNAN.
Dr Sloan 4 00
ATUOL, INDIAN LANDS.
Received per Rev W.W. Smith,
Collection and Subscriptions
1876-7, received since last
Report was made up 5 75
BRADFORD.
JohnArmson& W.McConkey 1 GO
F, Dowster and Friends 1 00
Smaller sums 75
$2 75
BRANTFORD.
I. Cockshutt Esq 10 00
Mrs.Cockshutt 5 00
Mrs. Laycock 5 03
Willian/Paterson,Esq. M.P.. 5 00
James Wilkes, Esq 2 00
Rev. S. P. Barker 1 00
W. E. Welding 100
J. K. Osborn 1 00
Thomas McLean 1 00
Mrs. J. Alexander 100
W. Shackell 1 00
Dr. Nichol 1 00
A Friend 1 00
J- Ker 1 00
Thomas Robson & M. Read. . . lift
Two Friends 1 0&
Small sums 75
$38 85
BnRFORD.
Henry Cox, Esq 6 OO
John M.Keachie 1 OO
Mr. Coverlv . . i- oo
Mrs. S. Kelley „ 1 oo
Miss N. Johnston &Mr.CliarIes 1 00
Charles D. Coverly and John
A. Smith ". 1 Q(i
Geo. Daniels and Two Friends 1 00*
Small sums 40,
$11 40
BARRIE.
T.J. Cook ,, 5 CO,:
A. B. Spotton and J no. Watson 1 OQ;
158
CONTRIBUTIONS.
E B. Crnnipton & W. Bovp... 1 00
George Ball and H. F. Griffin. 1 00
Small sums 1 10
$9 10
BOWMAXVILLE.
Mr. Bayncs 1 00
J. Higginbothan) 1 00
H. O'Hara 1 00
John McMurtry 1 00
Rev. C. Barker 1 00
W. McMurtry 100
D. Stott 1 GO
A Friend 1 00
George McGill and S. Porter. 1 00
Small sums 0 60
$9 60
BROCKVILLE.
Rev. G. Burnfield, M.A 100
J.J. Hannan 1 00
W.S. Schotield 1 00
William Sherwood 1 00
F. Schofield 1 00
J. M. Gill 2 00
Mrs. Haleey and the Misses
Picken • 1 00
Mr. Easton and VV. McMillan 1 00
Mrs. Danaatid Mrs. W.R. Bell 100
G. Hutchison 1 00
Mr. Hall &R.M. Fitzsimraons 100
$12 00
BELLEVILLE.
Mrs. W. H. Ponton 5 00
A. Christie, Esq 4 00
W F. Meudell 2 00
John Forin 2 00
Rev. A. 0. Cossar 1 00
Mrs. Esson 100
Mr. Campbell 1 00
George Ross 1 00
J. U; Clin)ie..,,. 1 00
A. J. Northrup 1 00
M . Richardson 100
Haijies and Lockett 1 00
Muir & Laurimer, and Mr.
Robertson • 1 00
Mrs. Stevenson and a friend,. 85
$22 85
BRIGHTON.
W. B. Thayey 2 00
James iNesbettand E. Bil.bv.. 1 00
S. A. Pnnly, and Kemp & Co 1 00
Rev. A. Campbell and a friend 75
fi 75
CALEDONI.V AND PORT COLBGRNE.
Rev . James Black 1 00
J{. C. Bucks 1 00
W & .J. Garland 1 00
Hugh Keiji.edv 1 00
Mr. Mattice, and Mr. Ellwoocl 1 (0
J.H.Thoiburn^and R. Thom I 00
Small sums 1 25
$7 25
OARLETON PLACE.
John Gillies .... 2 00
Allan McDonald 1 00
J. McDonald, and John Brown
& Co 1 00
W. H. Wvlie 1 00
F. Beyer.' 1 00
H. A. Alden 1 00
Thomas McCallum & Co.... 75
17 75
CHATHAM.
H.J. Gumming 2 00
K. Urquhart 2 00
(t. E. Young 2 00
T. Barfoot 2 00
Rev. A. McColl, and G. Boyd 1 00
R. D. McKellar 1 00
J. Stone 1 00
William McKeough 1 00
J. McKeough 1 00
James Scott 1 00
J. M.Hurd 1 00
Edwin C. Rolls 1 00
K. Campbell, and A. Hall... 1 00
John Wall, and A. Havward. 1 00
A. Young, and a friend 1 00
Small sums 1 25
$20 25
COLLINGWOOD.
John Tait. 1 00
G. VV. Hodgetts 2 00
VV. B. Hamilton .. 1 00
D. G. Cooper 1 CO
Mr. McParlane 100
Miss J. Mitchell and a friend. 1 00
George Shepherd, andJ. S.
Hunton 1 00
COLBORNE.
Mrs. Ford, and Mrs.Holden.,
Jas. Si-ougall and A. King. ..
Two Friends
$8 00
1 00
1 00
60
$2 50
CONTKIBUTIONS.
169
CORNWALL.
MvP. Judge Pringle (2 vears). 2 00
William Mcick ". 1 50
a. Moir 1 00
W. Colquhonn 1 00
Andrew Hodge 1 00
Robert Craig 1 00
John Copeliind 1 00
Campbell Hill 1 00
J. Dingwall 1 00
P. E. Adams 1 00
C. J. Mattice 1 05
W. J. Whitehead 1 CO
William Mattice I 00
William Atchison 1 00
D. Liddell 1 00
D. E. Mclntvre 1 00
D. W. Maclemvale 1 00
Rev. Dr. McNish, and Rev.
Mr. Binnie 1 00
Chas. Patrick, and D. Monroe 1 00
W. Ross, and two friends.... 1 00
A Friend 25
$21 80
COBOURG.
Field Brothers 5 00
W. L. Burn 2 00
J. W. Field I 00
F. F. Blackader 1 00
J. P. Field 1 00
J. Field, Sr 1 00
Rev. Hugh Pedley 1 00
0. W. Powell 1 00
W. Kerr, M.P 1 00
W. Hargraft, M.P.P 1 00
James Crossen 1 00
W. R. Whitelaw, and John
Hayden 1 00
J.T, Hamilton and friends... 1 00
$18 00
COLD KPRIKGS.
Mr. James and Miss Ritchie. . 1 00
N. Davidson 1 00
James Eagleson 1 00
.lames Ford 1 00
James Saxby I 00
Wm. Ricliard, & A. Hoskin 1 00
Wm. E gleson, & Mrs. Walt 1 00
George Kent and two friends. 1 00
Small sums 1 GO
DRESDEN.
Rev. W. Clarke 2 00
Rev. John A. McAlmon 1 00
Mtss McVean 200
P. Livingston 1 00
J. W. Sharpe 1 00
G. Tvveedie, M.D 1 00
Arthur Smith 1 flO
John French & S. Wallace. .. 1 00
A. Miller and John W.Johnston 1 00
Ale.\ander\Vatson,and a h'iend 1 00
Small sums 1 00
$18 00
EMBRO.
D. Matheson 2 00
Hugh Matheson 1 00
John McKenzie 1 00
Angus McKay 1 00
Hugh Matheson, sr 1 50
Rev. John Salmon I 00
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKay. 1 00
Paul Gordon '. . 1 00
Mrs. G. Matheson 1 00
G. Duncan, Esq., M.D 1 00
MissMcKayand A.McPherson 1 00
A . Gordon"!, aud R. Heron 1 00
Robert Ross, and D. Murray 1 00
Hugh Stewart, and J.F.Young 1. 00
Ralph Kent, and A. Brand. . . 1 00
Dr. J. and D. R. Ross 1 00
Hugh Murray ,and H. McAuley 1 00
N. A. Pitcher and Mrs. Hodg-
kinson 1 20
James Gray, and two friends. 1 00
Small sums 2 75
|23 45
FERGUS .
George S. Armstrong 5 00
George Ferguson 5 00
John Cormie 2 00
John Ironside 1 00
Rev. J. B. Mullen 100
Misses Whitt 1 00
H. Mechie 1 00
■Rev. G. Smellie 1 00
A. D. Fordyce 100
Small sums 1 50
?9 60
$19 50
FROME.
Rev .W.J. Cuthbertson 2 00
Collected by Mr. Lewis, 1877. 1 25
Mr. W. Silco.x, Sr 1 25
Joiui Silcox 3 00.
160
CONTBIBTjnONS.
George Silcox 1 00
John Silcox 1 00
Peter Horton 100
Collection at Clinrch Concert. 1 60
A. J. Silcox, and A. Horton. 65
$12 75
FOREST.
A. Scott, M.D I 00
James Hutton, M.D , 100
D. McBean, and Mr. Jones.. 1 00
Small sums 1 60
$4 50
GALT.
D. Farqnhareon 1 00
James Cavers 1 00
John Ballantyne I 00
B. Samp-^on 1 00
A . A . Fraser 100
James Woods 1 00
Mary M. Flemmg 1 00
Mrs. Reid, for two years 1 00
Rev. J. K. Smith, and W.
Quarrie 1 00
Robt McDougaII,a.idDr.Tasse 1 00
Mrs. Chase, and John Kay... 1 00
Small sums 1 00
$12 00
GANANOQUE.
Rev, H. Gordon 1 00
W. Byers 1 00
W. G. Mathews 1 00
Charles L. Parmenton, and J.
Ferguson 1 00
H. Gracey, and two friends. . 1 00
$5 00
GUELPH.
John Mickle, Esq ;.. 5 00
E. Passmore, Esq 4 00
Miss Mick !e 2 00
T. Hudgskin 2 00
C. F.Leonard 2 00
Mrs. Howard 5 00
John Crowe 2 00
Robert Gausbv 1 00
Mrs. Goldie, Sr 1 00
T. Goldie 1 00
W. Bean 1 00
Miss Hodgskin 1 00
Mrs. Boult , 1 CO
11. \V. Peterson I 00
Robert Thompson 1 00
A.M.Jackson 1 00
George Elliott 1 00
S. Greey 1 00
J. C. Smith. 1 00
George Wilkinson 1 (iO
James Innes 1 00
Mrs. Ann Mitchell 1 00
Kev. W. Manchee 1 00
G. E. Howard ] 00
B. Savage 1 00
Mrs. J. C. Presant 100
James Goldie, jr 1 00
Miss Grant 1 00
Mrs. Bates 1 00
Mr. P. Spragg 1 00
A. Parker 1 00
Mrs. Budd 1 00
A Friend 1 00
J. R. Melvin,per T. H 1 00
Mrs. Galbraith,and Mrs.Lvon 1 00
Mrs. Tatham, and C. Grundy 1 CO
Rev. T. Wardrope, and J . H ,
Lam prey 1 00
A. Walker, and J. F. Brown. 1 00
Miss Hinchchft'e and friend. .. 1 00
Small sums 1 35
$55 35
HAMILTON.
Congregational Sabbath School 5 00
Lucas, Park & Co 4 00
Rev. J. H 4 00
J. D. Macdonald 2 00
J. B. McQuesten 2 00
Rev. T. Baker 1 00
Mrs. H. Sanders 1 00
Thomas Beaslev 1 00
D. H. Fletcher 1 00
R. M. Wanzer 1 00
Rev. Dr. James 1 00
Mrs. Macallum 1 00
Hon. A. Hope 1 00
Samuel Briggs 1 00
Allred Turner 1 Oft
Mr. Garratt. 1 00
A.Alexander ... 100
I. C. Chilman 1 00
E. R. Kent 1 00
Mrs. B . Wool verton 1 00
Thomson, Birkett &BeIl.... 1 00
M. W. Grant 1 00
D. Aitcheson 1 00
James Walker 1 00
A. C. Reid 1 00
Brown, Routh & Co 100
Martin & Parkes 10:)
VV. R. Batcher, and a friend.. 1 00
Mr. Sheppard and do . . 1 00
A Friend 25
W . Edgar, per VV . W . Smith . 1 00
$42 25
ooifTEiBrrnoNS.
161
HAWKESBDRT .
J. Hamilton, jr 1 00
D. Stephens 1 00
Gr. H. Hig.nrison an i a friend 1 00
DMcKiliican, an! J .Cameron 1 '"'0
Stuart Brock, and a friend .. I 00
W. C. Middleton, and 2 friends 1 GO
Mrs. Hutchison 50
$6 50
HESPELLEB.
Small sums $2 76
INGERSOLL.
Kev. D. McKenzie 1 00
U. B. Caldwell 1 00
Dr. Springer I 00
Rev. John Dempsev ... 1 00
James Smith '. 1 00
Small sums 4 75
$9 75
KINGSTON.
Geo. Robertson & Son 15 00
J.Carruthers 5 00
R. Gunn .^ 5 (10
Mrs. Robertson, Sr 5 00
Calvin & Breck 5 00
Thomas Robertson 2 00
James Macnee 2 00
Mrs. McLeod 2 00
Mrs. W. Leslie 2 00
Dr. Yates 2 00
Miss Watkias 1 00
G. A. Kirkpatrick 1 00
J. B. Mowatt. 1 00
John McKelvev 1 00
N.Ross ." 1 00
J. R. Dickson 1 00
J. R. Carson 1 00
Mrs. Waddmgham 1 00
R. McCammon 1 00
D. Fraser 100
Rev. G. A.Gratl'tey & J. L . . . . 1 00
Dr. Clements and a friend 1 00
A.Chown&Co&Mr.Wilkinson 1 00
S. A. Baker and Mr. Mudie... 85
AFriend 50
%5'J 85
LISTOWEL.
Mrs. McGregor 100
Edward Galloway 1 00
Mr. Shields 1 00
Small sums 7 00
$10 00
LAyCASTEB.
McPherson & Alexander 2 00
Neil McGillis 1 00
Rev. I). Ross & D. Sutherland I 00
R. Cameron & I'. McLeod 1 00
A. McInnes&John C^Jiioun.. 1 00
Neil McCrimmon & H. Mui.ro I 00
J. J.Fra«er & D. Sancrster.... ^l 00
D. G. McBean .t II. Hill 1 00
J. McLean & A. Cameron 1 00
D. McCrimmon and 4 friends. I 60
$11 50
LANARK.
B. Caldwell 2 00
Rev. J. Brown 1 00
John Robertson 1 00
A. B. Dobbie 1 00
R. Robertson 1 00
J. Rankin and T. Baird I 00
J. Smith & T. Breckenridge.. I 00
Small sums 35
$8 35
LINDSAY.
S. A. McMurtry 1 00
JohnDobson 1 00
Edm. Gregory 1 00
C. L.Baker.: 1 00
Small sums 3 50
$7 50
LONDON.
E. Adams & Co 3 00
John Cameron & Co 2 00
K.Pickering 2 (10
H. Mathewson 2 00
Rev. R. W. and Mrs. Wallace. 2 00
W.H.Crossin 2 00
William Gurd 1 00
J. Hargreaves ] 00
E. A. Tavlor 1 00
L. Lawless 1 00
William Saunders 1 00
Mrs. Kitchen 1 00
John Monk 1 00
Davis & Son 1 00
H. Tozeland 1 00
A. B. Powell and W. Howell.. 1 00
Dr. Stewart and Mrs. Adams.. 1 00
M. W Johnstun and J. Kemp. 1 00
Mrs. W.Fairbairnifc 2 liiends. 1 00
Do. 60
$2G 50
.MANILLA.
Collection received per Rev. W.
,W..S,
$4 00
162
CONTRIBtmONS.
MARTINTOWN. ^
Hugh Christie 1 00
Mrs. Neil Campbell 1 00
Thomas Willing , 100
Rodrick Smart 1 00
Peter Christie 1 00
A. MoDermid 1 00
H. McDermid 1 00
M. P. McMartin & J. Foulds. . 1 00
Do. Jr., & D. McDongall 1 00
Small sums . 1 00
110 00
Rev. D. Macallum $ I 00
J. Kennedy 1 00
Small 3u ms o 99
$.5 99
MEAFORD.
John Wilson 1 00
J. & W.Stewart 1 00
J. West and friend 1 00
Do 25
$.3 25
MIDDLEVILLE.
James Affleck 1 00
Robert Affleck 1 00
James Campbell I 00
Rev. R. Brown 1 00
William Croft 2 00
Arch. Taylor & W. Stead.... 1 00
Robert Affleck and, friend 1 00
Small sums 1 15
$9 15
MILLBROOK.
Geo. Needier 1 00
Arch. Wood 1 00
Samuel Jamieson 1 00
S. C. Vance 1 00
John Hunter 100
Small sums 1 15
$6 15
MORKISBtJRG.
Geo. O. Clare 1 00
Jacob Hanes and W Gibson. . 1 00
A. Marlinger&R. H. Bradfield 1 00
Small sums 1 00
$i 00
NAPANEE.
C.S. Eastman 1 00
Mrs. Andrew 1 00
D. K. Shutin 1 00
A. Henry & U. Wilson I 00
S. Cliinnock and friends 1 00
Small sums 2 10
$7 10
NEWMARKET.
G. R. Mortimore 1 00
Thomas J. Robertson 1 00
Small sum!5 1 GO
m 60
OAKVILLE.
C. McCraiiey 2 00
Mr.s. McCraney 1 00
John A. Williams 2 GO
R. Balmer and P. Bethell 1 00
J.Barclay and Iriends 1 00
$7 00
OTTAWA.
Mrs. J. Johnson 5 00
Mrs. H. F. Bronson 5 00
F. Kilham, M.P 5 00
Dr. Forbes, M.P 2 00
C. Burpee, M.P 2 00
John Picl<ard, M.P 2 00
Hon. I. Burpee, M.P 2 00
William Cleiig 2 00
WilliamKerr 2 00
Bate & Co 2 00
Dr. Hill 2 00
Rev. D.M. Gordon 2(0
Rev. J. Wood 2 00
J. Lamb 2 00
E.H.Bronfcon 2 00
A. J. Stephens 1 00
JamesJarvis 1 00
Rev. W. Moore 1 00
R. Blackburn, MP 1 00
Mr. Blackader 1 00
Hev. F. W. Parries 1 00
Mrs. Porter and J. B. Lamb.. 1 00"
C. Robinson & Miss McKillican 75
$4li 75
OWEN SOUND.
CreJghton & Son 2 00
Geo. Muir 1 00
Small sums 1 00
$4 00
CONTKIBUTIONS.
163
PARIS.
Mrs. N. Hamilton 5 00
.1. Wickpon 5 Ol)
Charles \Vh;t'aw 2 00
Miss Hamilton 1 (0
Dr. S. R Cooke 1 00
Kev .1. Allworth 1 00
David Patton 1 00
H. Hart 1 00
P. Buckley 1 00
A frienil 1 00
T. Roberts 1 00
E. A. Sovereign 1 00
J. H. Hackland 1 OC
\V. W. Clay 1 00
J. Brockbanks 1 00
Janu'8 Finlayson and friends. . 1 25
D. Finlayson and S. R. Baker. I 00
$26 25
PEMBROKE.
Rev. W. J. Ballantyne 1 00
A- Irving 1 00
J. H. Metcalfe 1 00
Thomas Deacon 1 00
P. Duggan & G. Bidgood 1 00
C. Chapman & Mr. Harwood. 1 00
Thomas Pink and a friend... 1 00
John S. Kellar do ... 1 00
Mr. Duncan and Mr. Watt. ... 1 25
VV. R. White'& W.W, Kenning 1 00
Dr. Dickson and 2 friends I 00
Small sums 3 40
[4 65
PERTH.
A.E. Seeley 2 00
James Gray 1 00
A. Meishan & Bros 1 00
M. R. Dodd I 00
Mrs. Dr. Rugg 1 00
Rev.F.P. Sym 1 00
Rev Jacob Freshman 1 00
J. D. Campbell 1 00
Hall & Kliiott 1 00
E. G. Malloch 1 00
Dr Bam and D. Glossop .... 1 00
Walker Brothers and J. H . . . 1 00
Tiiomis Cairns and a IViend. . . 1 00
Thomas l.rooke & F. Allen.. 1 00
C A. .Matiiison and friends... I 00
Small sums 1 29
$17 29
PETERBORO.
N. Nicholls 5 GO
Gen. Hanltain,... 5 00
Col. Hanltain.... 2 00
Rev. E. F. Torrance 2 (0
Mrs. Hanltain, Sr.' I 00
Mrs. Scott 1 00
Miss Scott. 1 00
James Hall 1 00
Peter Connel 1 00
Richard Hall 1 00
W. W. Johnston 1 00
Dr. Burnham 1 00
William Davidson 1 00
William Hamilton 1 00
Mrs. Dickson 1 00
J. H. Roper 1 00
H. W. Dumble 1 00
T. W. Robinson.... 1 00
W. H. Tavlor, M.D 1 00
W. Paterson 1 00
George Cox 1 00
A friend 1 00
Mrs. Hazlett and R. A. Brown 1 10
J. Stevensoti an<l 2 friends.. .. 1 05
James William & W. D. Pearn 1 00
$85 15
PICTON.
James Gillespie I 00
B. Gillespie 1 00
G. C. Carry 1 00
B. S. White & P. W. Post .... 1 00
Jas. Chute and W. T. Ross... 1 00
E. B. Cronk, Blomfield 16)
$6 50
PINE GROVE.
Collection & subscriptions per
Rev. W. W. S 3 63
PORT ELGIN'.
Small sums 75
PORT PERRY.
James Bond 1 00
A. A. Allen and friend 1 00
C. M. Jones do 1 00
Wm. Tate & J. W. Davis 1 00
Small sums 75
$4 75
PRESCOTT.
James Hine 2 00
C. Willard 1 oO
Mrs. J. Burnett 1 00
James Irvpia ,...,.... 1 00
164
CONTRIBUTIONS,
S. Merrill.,; 1 00
T. Coates 50
$5 50
POKT HOPE.
William Craig 5 00
C. Quinlan..'^... 1 00
VV. Quaig 1 00
W . H. Wadsworth 1 00
Rev. VV. Donald 50
18 50
KENFRKW.
Stewart Ko^s 1 00
Mrs. Rice 1 00
S. McDougall and a friend i 00
.1. Ward and D. F. Stewart,. . I 00
Small suinK 1 00
$5 00
SARSIA.
E. Watson 4 00
W. B. Clark 2 00
Kev. W. H. A. Claris 1 00
C. C. Claris 1 00
J. R. Gemmill 1 00
John McLagan 100
Robert Mclvenzie 1 00
Alexander McLagan 1 00
J. Robson 1 00
T. W, Nisbett 1 00
J. F. Lister 1 00
E. J. Browne and H. Black.. 1 00
F, McGibbon & R. T. Chalmers 1 00
Robert Turner Si J as. Lambert 1 00
A. Claris and Mr. Lowrie. ... . 1 00
VV. Favor and Mrs. Symington 1 00
Small sums 1 75
$21 75
SCOTLAND.
Rev. W. Hay 1 00
Dr. Malcom' 100
H. Lymati. 1 00
Alonzo Foster & E. Malcolm. . I 00
Mrs. McComb and T. C. Brand 1 00
A. Foster and S. Hunter 1 10
A. Malcolm and small suras.. 1 25
$7 35
SIMCOE.
Small sums 2 37
SOUTH CALEDON.
Collection Cougreg'l church . . 150
A. Frank 1 00
SMITHS FALLS,
Rev. J. Crombie 1 00
Rev. Mr. Milne 1 00
J. McGilvray 2 00
J. M. Clark 1 00
C. B. Frost 1 00
J. F. Frost I 00
A. Templeion 1 00
John Moir and Mr. Keith 1 00
Rev. Mr. Steacy and iriends... 1 CO
$10 00
ST. MARV's.
Rev. .lohn McAlpine 1 00
A. Beattie and W. Sharpe I 00
J. Sanderson and a friend. .. . 1 00
H. H. White and G. Eaton.... 1 00
Small sums 1 75
$5 75
ST. Catharines.
John Hunter 5 00
W.J.McCalla 2 00
John Dew, and T. B.Hart.... 2 00
Rev. James R. Black 100
S. Montgomery 1 00
S.Neilon... 1 00
C. E. Hamilton 1 00
W, Woodruff- 1 00
James Norris 1 00
$15 00
ST. THOMAS.
Rev. James Brown 1 00
M. Rosevear and family 1 00
J.Patterson 1 00
Mr. McLean and Ware & Son. 100
J. W. McKay and D. Ferguson 1 00
Small sums ' 1 00
$6 00
STRATFORD.
Rev, H. Hughes, per Rev. W.
W. Smith 1 00
John Sharman 2 00
Joseph Sbarman 2 00
Mrs. J. C. W. Daly 1 00
J. Hyde, Esq, M.D .1 00
James Gordon , 1 00
John Welsh tfe Mrs, Reynolds. 1 00
John C. Hurst and a friend. . . 75
$2 50
$9 75
CONTRIBUTIONS.
165
SPEEDSIDE.
James Loghrin -i 00
William AniiPtrong 4 01
Thomas S. Armstrong 2 00
Joiin S. Armstrong '2 1)0
James Peters 1 00
Jonathan Lister 1 00
Richard M 1 00
Alfred Watson 1 00
Harry Martin 1 00
HenrV Carter 100
Rev. C. D'uft 1 00
R. S. Armstrong I 00
Isaac Anderson 1 00
David Rae 1 00
James S. Armstrong ■ ■ • . ^ 00
George Armstrong 2 00
Alice Peters and Thos. Carter 1 00
Robt. Watson and H. Farrow.. 1 00
Mrs. Smith, and J.Benham... 1 80
$28 80
THAMESVILLE.
R. Ferguson 1 00
Rev. J. Beckett and friends. .. 1 00
Small sums 80
$2 80
TREXTON.
Rev. J. L. Stewart 1 00
Mrs. Jiockett 1 00
G. W. Wilson and friends 1 00
$8 00
TORONTO.
■ Andrew Hamilton 10 00
John Macdonald, M.P 10 00
John D. Nasmith 5 00
J. H.Richardson, M.D 5 00
Blake, Kerr & Boyd . , 5 00
C. Page & Sons 4 00
H. Wickson .' 2 00
Mrs. Freeiand 2 00
David Higtiins 2 00
W. Freeiand, (2 years) 2 00
Rev. S. James 2 00
John VVightman 2 (0
John Wickson 2 00
William Elliott 2 00
R. Wilkes, M.P 2 00
Georg"^ Scott 2 00
Rev. Alexander Topp, D.D... 2 00
W. W. Copp 2 50
H. J Clark 2 50
Mr. Parker, (Yorkville) 2 00
J. C. Copp 2 00
MissMcCord 1 00
D. Arnott 1 00
H. Kent 1 00
G. A Childs 10'^
G. B Hague 1 00
J. J. Wuodhouse 1 00
A friend per do 1 00
Jj S. Hamilton I 00
Frs. Hall 1 00
Mrs. Anker 1 00
Harry Webb 1 50
Edward Beckett 1 00
John P. M. Burnside 1 00
Mr. Passmore 1 CO
J. D. Ridout 1 00
Thomas J. Wilkie 1 00
W. W. Elliott ... lO'O
James Lumbers 1 00
H. E. Gaston 1 00
John Yiiungand R. B 1 00
James Sherman 50
$'Ji 00
VAXKLEEK HII.L.
Sheriff Wells 1 00
A. McLaurin 1 00
H. Hume and Joiin Mode 1 Oi)
McLeod & Co, & J R M cLaurm 1 00
Mrs. Stewart it VV. McKiilican 1 00
P. R. McLaurin and a triend.. 1 00
M. McCuaig and 2 friends 1 00
Small sums 90
$7 90
WALKERTON.
Small sums 75
WATERDOWN.
Thos. Little & Jas. McLaren. . 1 25
Peter Cieen & Jas. Bruce.... 1 00
Small sums 75
$3 00
WATFORD.
D. Ross 50
J Rutherford 50
W. P. AlcLaren 50
$1 50
WHITBY.
Congregational Sunday School 5 80
Ross Johnston 1 00
James Holden 1 00
A. McLean and Mrs Harvey.. 1 00
Mis. Byron an. 1 W. CuUen 1 00
Small sums 60
$10 32
166
OONTKIBTmONS.
■WOODBRIDGE.
Per Rev. W. W. Smith; Subs-
cription?, $4 and $2.70 6 70
WOODSTOCK.
Rev. C. Gondspeecl 1 00
J. Ball 1 00
Geoige Perrv 1 t^O
T. Mr.Uongall 1 00
F.Nisbet 1 00
J. Moiitgoinei'v & F. B. Scho-
field .'..... .'■ 1 00
S. Rutherford and A. Rose... ! 00
M. White and Mr. Clarke..,. 1 00
Small sums 1 25
$9 25
QUEBEC.
BKIGHAM.
Mrs. Brighani.. 1 00
Arthur Perkin^^ 1 00
I. Harrison, and J . Dodsworth 1 00
Small suindi 85
$3 85
COATICOOK AXD COMPTON .
0. M. Moulton 1 00
A. M. Bullock, and friends... 1 00
Mr. Lougie, Comjiton 1 00
Rev. G.'H. Parker, Comptoa 2 00
T. J. Pomeroy " 1 00
Friends 50
$G 50
COWANSVTLLE.
G. B. Jaques 4 00
Mrs. Mair 4 00
Rev. B. \V. Day 2 00
Mrs. McKay 2 00
W. P. Carter 2 00
Mrs, Small 1 00
H. E. Gleason I 00
W. H. MHcfarlane I iO
Mrs. Hull I 00
Mrs. AVrisht and friends 1 00
J\lrp. Wiliard an.l friends 1 dO
G. Neshitt and A. Oliver.... 1 00
J. McKninon and friends 1 05
M.S.Dickenson 2 00
$2^ 05
DANVILLE.
Collection in Congregational
Church, J?:->.G2; inchniing
snhs'n of Mrs. Morrill, $1.50 5 12
J. L. Goodhue 2 00
George GoikI hue 2 00
.1. P. Stdckwell 2 00
E. C. Goodhue I 00
J. W. Stockwel! 1 00
A. McLeavand Riddle 1 00
John and'W. H. Stockwell.. 1 00
Rev. W. H. Boudreuu •, 1 00
Dr. Glines, and VV. R. Leet.. 1 00
Mrs. McKillican,and A.McCal-
lum I 00
J. Mackie 50
118 62
DUNPEE.
Small sums $2 25
EATON.
Rev. W. W. Smith 2 00
Mr. H. French 1 00
Mrs. Esther Sawyer 1 00
G. W. Powers, M.D 1 00
John Lebourveau 1 00
$6 00
FRANKLIN CENTRE.
Collection at Congregational
Church and subscriptions.. |4 75
GRANBY .
Rev. R. K. Black 1 00
A. Downs 1 00
]\Irs. McCanna 1 00
C. \V. Tillson 1 00
Robert Hunter 1 Oq
R. Nicol 1 00
J. Bradford ] 00
Mrs. H . Horner 1 00
S. H. C. Mmer 1 00
John Baird 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. Elkins 1 50
W. Horner iind Zeph. Harvey 1 (lO
'i'hos. Walton and John Barr. 1 (;0
W. Strteter, Bros, ttc 1 00
W. ].. Clow, .la'^. Kay &c ... 110
Mrs. MiiesjSr., R.Robinson i.\jc. 1 25
Mrs. .liimes Horner and W.
Mitchell 1 00
Small fcunis 2 50
$20 35
CONTRIBTTTIONS.
167
HUNTINGDON.
Robert Sellon 2 00
A. Henderson 2 00
Rev. J anie.* Watson 1 00
Rev. Jap. B. Mnir 1 00
James McGregor 1 00
MissGibb 1 00
J. Henry I 00
Messrs. Welsh, Oilman, and
Siianks 1 50
$10 50
LACHXTTE .
Tliomas Christie, M.D.,M. P. 2 00
L. Barron 1 00
Mrs. Wells 1 00
Mr. J. Meikle 1 00
Juhn Christie I 00
Hnjrh Fraser, Sr 1 00
James Fish 1 Oi)
H. Fraser, Jr., and John Hope 1 00
Mr a. Barron and J. P. Urr. 1 00
W. Bantbrd & Co., and W. Bain I 00
Jas. W. Rait and G. Thomson 1 00
Small sums 75
MELBOURNE.
Mrs. Maclver 1 00
William Bnister 1 00
Roderick McKenzie 1 00
Mrs. Edmison and a friend. . . 1 00
A . McKenzie and J .Campbell 1 00
Miss Monleith and friends 1 00
$6 00
PI.TERTON.
Collection after Sermon 1 71
John Wadlei-h 1 00
James Miller 1 00
J . Alexander 50
. $4 72
WINDSOR.
H. J. Brown I 00
Jos . S . Brown and W . M . Wells 1 00
John Sampson 1 00
$a 00
MONTREAL.
Bazaar, (per Miss Ba3'lis) 25 00
MoLachlan Boothers 15 00
George Hague i 0 00
Bible" Class, Zion Church,
(per Mr. J. Baylis) 10 00
American Presbyterian S.Sch. t! 50
Children's Collecting Boxes.. 5 69
Jamea Dougall 5 00
Charles Alexander.. 5 00
Robert Mills 5 00
Mrs. I'. Redpath 5 00
Alfred Sava-e & Son.... 5 00
Re\ . G. H. Wells ... 5 (.0
Mrs. ReJpath 3 00
Thomas Robertson ?> 00
Rev. J. F. Stevenson, LL.B. 3 00
Kev. H. Wilkes, D.D., LLD. H 00
Rev. A. J. Bray 3 00
Mrs. Learmont 3 00
R. C. Jamieson 2 00
Mrs. H. Lyman 2 CO
John Date' 2 00
E. F. Ames 2 dO
G. W. Reed 2 00
H. K. Ritchie 2 00
H. Ross 2 00
S. Stirling...... ,. 2 00
William Moodie 2 00
N. B. Corse 2 00
M vs. J . Mcintosh 2 0^)
P. U. Burton 2 00
John Heath 2 00
Robert Uunn 2 00
Mrs. Irish 2 00
" Spalding 2 00
« Moss 2 00
Rev. K. M. Fenvvick i 00
James Williamson 1 00
R. Birks 1 CO
Mrs. Sutnerland 1 00
Spanish River Sunday School,
(per Miss B.) ' 1 50
John Murphy 1 00
Mrs. Cheney 1 00
Mrs. Uangerfapld I 00
Mrs. Alexander Clark 1 00
Cash 1 00
R. Irwin 1 00
W. Drysdale 1 00
Cash I 00
Do 1 00
Mrs. Douglass 100
H. Saunders 100
T. Lyman 1 00
Mrs.'Utting 1 00
•' Laver's 1 00
■" McCauley .... 1 00
A Friend 1 00
Small sums 1 OJ
$177 I'J
ST. HYACINTHE.
Mrs . J . Daigneau 2 00
G. F. Burnett 1 00
A. H. Stott 1 00
$4 00
168
OONTltrBUTIONS.
ST. LAMBERT.
W. H. Rosevear '... $1 00
CITY OF QUEBEC.
James G. Ross 10 00
Mr. VV.B. Clark 5 00
G. C. Ho^^sack 5 00
William Cream 4 00
G. B. Hall & Co 4 00
Rev. H. D. Powis. 2 00
J Hossack 2 00
J. J. Bew 2 00
J. Glaf^B 2 00
0 L. Richardson & Co 2 00
John C. Thomson 2 00
J. Robertson 2 00
M iss Robertson 2 00
A. Foulds 2 00
D. Cream..... 1 00
W. D Campbell 1 00
J. Holins 1 00
P. McC 1 00
Rev. D Mardi 1 00
D. & J 1 00
Mr. Strang 1 00
W. H. Duvay 1 00
S. Kennedy 1 00
Robert Hamilton I 00
A Friend 25
T. T. Dawson 1 00
$57 25
KICHMOXD.
R.N. Webber, M.D 2 00
A.J. Cleveland 2 00
Rev. Charles Tanner 2 00
G. K. Foster 1 00
Jolii) Ewiug 1 00
W. E. Jonea 1 00
R. M Blake 1 00
A. Swanbiirne 1 00
C.F.Cleveland 1 00
Rev. F. M. Dewey 50
$12 50
SHERBROOKE.
A. Paton ,3 00
E. Burks Sanborn 3 >, 0
E Hargraves 2 50
Samnel Morey. 2 00
T. S. Morev." 2 00
f". A. ilmd 1 00
James Paton 1 00
J. G R 1 00
S. Tjck 1 00
Mrs. C. Brooks 100
Mra. Hurd 1 00
E. DiokinFon TOO
M. McKechnie 1 00
T. J.'l'nck 1 00
S. J. Foss 1 00
L. Farwell.... 1 00
William Addie 1 00
Mrs. Kyle 1 00
William White 1 00
H. Hubbard 1 00
A Friend 25
$27 75
LENNOXVILLE.
Brooks Brothers 2 00
Mr. Abbott 1 00
J. McKenzie 1 00
Mrs. R. Oui-hired 1 00
A. Stevens'; 1 00
16 00
SN. Andrew's.
Mrs. Turner 2 00
Duncan Dewar 2 00
Thomas Land. 2 00
Cash ..... 1 00
Charles T. Wales 1 00
A. Dewar 1 00
G. & M. Simpson, and E. A.
Williams 1 00
Miss Harrington and a friend. 1 00
F. N. Beattie and F. C. Martin 1 00
Small sums 1 40
$13 40
STANSTEAD.
Rev. George Thornloe 1 00
A Friend 1 00
C.A.Richardson 105
A. P.Bali I 00
C. W. Cowles, M.D 1 00
Quartus Pomeroy 1 00
J.Lee 'lerrill •. 1 00
Mrs. Wood and G. S. Carpenter 1 00
$8 00
WATERVILI.E.
Congregational Collection $2 50
WATERLOO.
Hon. G. G. Stevens 1 00
W.L Hibbard andairiend.. 1 00
A Friend 25
$2, 25
T h:e
CONGREGATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND SOCIETY.
OFFICE-BEARERS FOR THE YEAR 1878-9.
CHAIRMAN.
J. S. McLACHLAN, Montreal.
VICE-CHAIRMAN.
CHARLES ALEXANDER, Montreal.
TREASURER.
J. C. BARTON, Montreal.
SECRETARY.
C. R. BLACK, Montreal.
DIRECTORS.
Messrs R. C. JAMIESON, R. DUNN, H. BIRKS, H. W. WALKER,
T. ROBERTSON and H. K. RITCHIE.
MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE CONGREGATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND
SOCIETY, HELD AT LONDON, JUNE 8th, 1878.
On motion, the Rev. W. 0. Allwoi-th, was called to the Chair,
and the Rev. D. Macalium was appointed Minute Secretary.
The Rev. J. Unsworth opened the meeting with prayer.
The Roll of Members having been called, the following members
were found to be ))re.sent: —
RevR. W. H. Allworth, R. K. Black, J. Brown, R. Brown, Prof*.
Cornish, C. Duff, S. N. Jackson, D. Macalium, E. C. W. McColl, J.
Unsworth, and Mr. S. Groey, Guelph, Mr. James Bale, Hamilton, and
Mr. G. S. Fenwick, Kingston.
Mr. C. R. Black, Secretary, then read the following: —
TWEXTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CONGREGATIONAL PROVI-
DENT Fund Society.
The Society has now attained its majority and it might be
interesting to refer back to its inception and note some facts as to its
gradual increase.
Its tii'st Report in 1858 showed a beneficiary membership of
eleven, with an income of $110. Jn 1859, owing chifly to the dona-
tions of Montreal friends, its capital had increased to $1,425, while
lYO CONGEEGATIONAL PROVIDENT FITND SOCIETY.
the list of beneficiaries had more than doubled. In 1860, the capital
increased to S2,20() ; in 18b*l, to $2,800; in 1865, to 86,000; in 1869,
to $0,00i); in lb72, to $12,400; in 1878, to $18,800.
Durino- that pei'iod it has paid to the widows and orphans of
deceased ministers $-4,725. And there ai'e now on the fund five
widows and one cijild as annuitants, receivini^ $540 annually.
During ail these years, the beneficiary membership, (dating
from 1859, when it was 26j, has maintained a Vi.n'y even average —
about thirty — although the personnel has changed considerably ; only
ton of the twenty-six who were members in 1859, being on this
year's list.
Of the original eleven members, four have been called home and
their widows are now reaping the j)enefit of their faith; I'or it
required no little faiih on theia part to subscribe to a society' whoso
income was then only $110.
It is matter for great gratitude to God that in the earlier years
of the ISociely's existence it had lime to accumulate financial strength
before, in the jjrovidence ot God it was called upon to pay any
annuities.
Leaving the past, we now turn to the present, and our first dut};-
is an unwelcome one, \\z.: to report the death during the year of
our old and valued member, the Kev. A. J. Parker, late of Danville.
He had, however, served his Master long and faithiully and went
cheertully home to his reward.
Ho was one of the original eleven beneficiary members, and his
widow makes the fifth annuitant on the lund.
In accordance with article nine of the By-laws this is the yaar
in which the rates and annuities may be revised. Should no change
be deemed neccssar}", the}' cannot be altered until the year 1883.
Five years ago the annuity was increased from $90 to $100 but no
change was made in the rates of subscription.
This 3oar it might be well to consider whether it would not bo
advisable to reduce the rtites somewhat, In the oj)inion of the
I'nrectors this could be done, as regards the W. & O. F. Branch with-
out any danger to the Fund, but that is a matter llr your own con-
sideration and decision.
Your Board has hitherto, without exception, been permitted to
report at each annual meeting of the Society that its investments had
yielded a good pei'centage, but unfortunately they are not in a posi-
tion this year to reptjrt such an encouraging state ot affairs. At the
date of our last siatement the amount invested in the Provincial
Loan ('ompany for b(jth branches was yielding eight per cent; but
during the fall of 1877 the usual half yearly dividend was not
declared. The stockholders being dissatisfied with the result called
OOTTGREGATIONAL PEOVIDENT IFUND SOCIETY. 171
for n thorough examination of the Coinpanj-'s position, and appointed
a large shaieholdor trotn among- themselves together with one of the
Directors, as a eommluee to examine tlioroughi}' into the transac-
tions of the (Jomj);iiiy and ascertain its true jmsition. Their report
was presented to tiie stockhol lers at a meeting held in February of
this year, which meeting was at'ended by your Treasurer and
Secretary on behalf of tiie SocieL\'. From the i-eport which was
very exhaustive it appeared that the tinancial position of the tJom-
paii}^ was to say the least of it unhealthj', and the management
showed great incompetence in the proper securing of its loans,
the result being that the "liost " had been wiped out leaving the
capital barely intact. The management was fully cjdticized, and
new blood infused into the Directorate, so that it is hoped as times
improve and city property becomes more enhanced in value, the
Company may gradually j-etrieve its position ; but in the mean time
no dividends can be looked for, for one or two years to comi^ at least.
This explanation will enable you to understand the reason of the
small receipts from interest as compared with last 3'ear.
The Board regrets exceedingly to have to report such a mis-
fortune; but at the same time it is cause for thanktulnoss that it is
only a comparatively small proportion of the Society's funds that are
there invested. The other company in which the major part of your
money is placed paid a dividend of eight per cent, for the twelve
tnonths. Its Annual Keport shows a very strong position, and this
security may be considered quite good, the shares being saleable at a
good premium.
In this connection it is well to remember that the extroine
business depression which has continued for so long a time could
not be expected to leave untouched the values of stoc'-s and
securities; and it is a well known fact that investors in all descrip-
tions of stocks have hud to submit to very mui'.h decreased returns ;
and in some instances to actual loss of money invested.
The Retiiing Ministers' Fund Branch will feel this loss of income
most of course as all its capital is invested there, and it will be all
the more needful f)r the churches therefore to direct their contribu-
tions mainly to this Branch in the meantime. There is still a good
deal of money pi-omised but as yet unpaid, the result of the Kev.
Mr. Clarke's canvass among the churches, and if that could be got in
during 1878-79 it would be a great jjoint gained.
At its last meeting the Society requested the Directors to consi-
der on what terms ministers ma}'' be made beneSciai-y members of
the IJetiring Ministers' Fuiirj Branch by the payment ota sum of
money cither at once or during a term of yeai-s, by themselves or
their churches.
The Directors have not been able to get data sufficient to guide
them to a correct and reliable decision in regard to this, and would
rather it were deferred for the pj-esont.
172
CX)NGREGATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND SOCIETY.
List of Beneficiaries, Widows and Orphans' Fund Branch, 29 : —
Revs. Messrs. Allworth. Revs. Messrs. Hindley. Revs. Messrs. Sanderson.
Black, R.K. " Bowell. " Smith.
" Brown, J. " Jackson. " Stevenson.
" Brown, R. " Manchee. " Silcox.
" Cornish. " Maealluni. " S3'kes.
« Dav. " McKillican. " Lfnsworth.
" Duff, A. " McGregor, A. '' Wheeler.
" Duff, C. " Mcintosh. " Wilkes.
" Dickson. " McColl. ''' Wood.
" Hay, R. " Salmon.
Beneficiaries, Eetiring Ministers' Fund Branch, 8 : —
Revs. Messrs. Allworth. Revs. Messrs. Brown, R. Revs. Messrs. Unsworth.
" Black, R K. " Macallum. " Wood.
" Brown, J. " Sykes.
The following were elected on application, last June, but have
not qualified by paj'ing the premium, and will thei'efore need to be
proposed afresh it they wish to join the Fund: —
Rev8. Messrs. Jackson, Manchee, Colwell, Barker and Smith.
List of Life Members, being subscribers of twenty dollars and
upwards at one lime, 44 : —
Charles Alexander. B.Hutchins. J. F. Warbrick.
W. R. Hibbard. Mrs. D. Lewis. Henry Hart.
Mrs. vV. R. Hibbard. William McDunnough. Mrs. P. Freeland.
Henry Lyman. D. R. Blackadder. George Hague.
Mrs. "H. Lyman. Hon. I. Burpee, M. P. James Smith.
Joseph Jarkson. J. Carruthers. Mrs, Webb.
William Niven. Mrs. Henry. G. S. Fenwick.
P. \V. Wood. Henrv Wickson. James Barber.
J P. Clark. F. Scholes. Bjyd Caldwell.
Theo. Lyman. Rev. H. Cocks. C. Page and Son.
David Lewis. diaries Whitlaw. Robertson Brothers.
William Moodie. D. Hig^ins. George Silcox.
Alfied Savage. John Wickson. John Silcox.
T. M.Tavlor. S.Hodgskin. W. A. Wallis.
Richard "Holland. J. J. VVoodliOuse.
Contributing churches, 1878: —
Slierbrooke and Lennoxville 13 28
Guelph 10 00
Pine Grove 6 00
Lanark Village 4 50
$33 78
The whole respectfully submitted.
(JHAKLES E. BLACK,
Montreal, 31st May, 1878. Secretary Board of Directors.
It was then moved by the Eev. S. N. Jackson, and seconded by
Ecv. J. Unswortli, that the report be received and adopted.— Cai-ried.
The Nov. Eobert Brown reported that |5, remitted by him by
mail, had been destroyed by tire in the post-office at Lanark, and he
inquired whether he or the the Society were to bear the loss; when
CONGREGATIONAL PKOA^IDKNT FUND SOCIETY. 17^
it was moved by Prof. Coi-nish, seconded by Eev.E. K. Black, and
Keaolved, — that the Treasurer be authorized to give Mr. Brown credit
for the $5 remitted by him, and thus lost.
The Eev. H. Denny's case having come up, it was Resolved, that
his case be referred to the Union, as there are no funds at our dis-
])osal.
The Eev. H. D. Hunter, of Newmarket, was proposed as a
beneticiary member of the W. & O. Branch of the Provident Fund,
and the Eev. T. Hall, of St. John's, Newfoundland, of both branches
of the Fund. — Eeceived.
Dr. Cornish moved, seconded by Eev. S. N. Jackson, that the
f)llowing be the Directors for the ensuing year: — Messrs. J. S.
McLachian. C. Alexander, J. C. Barton. E. C. Jamieson, C. E. Black,
E. Dunn, H. Birks, T. Robertson, H. V\'. Walker and H. K. Ritchie.
— Carried.
Resolved, — that Eev. W. H. Allworth present the claims of this
Society to the Union.
Resolved, — Ttiat the report of this Society be printed in the Year
Book.
Adjourned. W. H. ALLWOETH,
Chairman.
174 r;OA'C+KEGATI0NAL PKOVIDENT FUiSD SOCIETV.
TREASUEEE'S STATEMENT— CONGfEEGATIONAL PROYI-
DBNT FUND SOCIETY.-SlsT May, 1878.
WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' BRANCH.
31flt May, 1878.
Receipts.
Premiums, Beneficiaries ^311 00
Collections from Churches 3.3 78
Donation 1 00
Interest 1 ,251 60
$1,597 38
Disbursements.
Annuities $490 00
Repayment (Durrani) 100 00
Montreal Loan and Mortgage Co. on account
new stock 750 00
Expense account 55 35
Balance due Treasurer Ist June, 1877 204 52
$1,599 87
Balance due Treasurer $2 49
Capital Account.
298 Shares, Montreal Loan & Mortgage Co $14,900 00
298 " " " new- 0 /a 5:;^ 745 00
63 " Provincial Loan Company 3,150 00
Investments, 1878 ..." $18,795 00
" 1877 18,045 00
Increase $750 00
Examined and found correct.
/w^„.^N WM. MACDOUGALL,) , ,.,
(Signed,) rqBERT MILLS, 'l^^d^tors.
B. & O. E. (Signed,) J. C. BARTON,
Treasure'.
CONGEEGATIONAL PKOVIDENT FUND SOCIETY.
175
TEBASUEER'S STATEMENT— CONGREGATIONAL PEOVI-
DENT FUND SOCIETY.— 31st May, 1878.
RETIRING MINISTERS' FUND BRANCH.
.3l6t May, 1878.
Receipts.
Balance on hand 1st June, 1877 $378 04
Received from Beneficiaries 72 00
Donations 53 50
___ ™ $503 54
DiSBUKSEMENTS.
Paid Rev. H. Denny |100 00
" Rev. A. J. Parker 25 00
" Expense account 7 50
— — $132 50
Balance on hand $371 04
Capital Account.
40 shares Provincial Loan Company $2,000 00
Examined and found correct,
,e- J^ WM. MACDOUGALL,/ . ,.,
{Signed,-) ROBERT MILLS, '{Auditors.
E. & 0. E. (Signed,) J. C. BARTON,
Trea^mrer.
176 OON®ATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
President, i
W. E. WELDING, Esq., Brantford.
Vice-Presiclcut :
JAMES SMITH, Esq., Toronto.
Secretary-Treasurei',
REV. J. B. SILCOX.
Directors :
Revs. C. DUFF, M.A., J. WOOD, W. MANCHEE, J. B, SILCOX, and
Messes. JOHN WIGHTMAN, of Toronto; WILLIAM E. WELDING,
Brantford ; and J. SMITH, Toronto.
The second Annual General Meeting of the Congregational
Publishing Compan}^ was held in London, Ont., in the Congregational
Church, on the 5th June, 1878, at 4:30 p.m. The Rev. S. W. Jackson,
K.D., President, was called to the chair, and the Rev. W. Manchee
was appointed Minute Secretary. After prayer by the Rev. J.
Unsworth, the Eev. J. VVood, on behalf of the Directors, submitted
the following
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CONGKEGATIOXAL PUBLISPIING COMPANY.
Owing to the removal of the President to Kingston, and of the
Editor and Secretary-Treasurer of the Company to Ottawa, in
January last, it has been found impossible to have a meeting of the
Directors so as to lay this Eeport before them ior their approval.
The Secretary, therefore, begs to submit as his Peport the following
statements : —
Shortly before the last annual meeting he asked for tenders for
the printing of the Canadian Independent and Congregational Year
^<j<?/'';, fi'om four of the largest and most reliable printing-houses in
Torottio, and the result was that the tender of Messrs. Bell, Bawkins
& Co.., WU8 accepted for the printing of the former, and of Messrs.
Hill & W.ejr., for the latter, theirs being the lowest respectively, and
;in every way satisfactor3^ In consequence of this, a very large
reduction has been effected in the cost of these publications, amount-
idng in. all to oyer two hundred dollars as compared with the previous
J' ear.
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. 177
The commercial depression, however, so widely and sorely felt,
has told severely upon our subscription list, our advertisements and
our receipts generally. By direction of the Board of Directors, the
Secretary sent out some hundreds of accounts to suDscribers in
arrears respectfully requesting payment of the accounts due. To
these a number of responses were received, but unfortunately often
with the order to stop sending the magazine. Many of these letters
speak very kindly and appreciatively of the periodical, but hint that
necessary retrenchment compels the writers to deny themselves of
the pleasure of taking it for the present. Our circulation has in
consequence fallen off over eighty copies during the year, notwith-
standing that a considerable number of new names have been
received (25). Our advertisements have been nearly all withdrawn,
and although two agents have been employed, it has been found
impossible to replace them. In this, however, we do not suffer
alone, many of the best advertising mediums in Canada and the
United States complaining of a very serious falling off of receipts in
this respect.
The number of copies of the Congregational Year Book published
was the same as in the previous year, and the profits upon its publi-
cation will do much to meet the loss incurred in publishing the
magazine.
The receipts from all sources, during the year, have been
$2,097.09, made upas follows: — On ^Lcconnt o^ Canadian Independent,
f 1,051. 17; Tear ^00^, ^387.07 ; on account of stock in the Publishing
Co., $3':J5.00 ; sales in Book Eoom, $320.85, which with balance in
the hands of the Treasurer, at last meeting, of 1104.37, makes a total
debit of $2,201.46. The disbursements have been $2,236.63, viz. :—
For printing and paper, $881.41 ; salary of editor, postage, and inci-
dentals, $531.78, and paid on balance due to Hunter, Eoso & Co. and
interest, $705.38. Our interest account is, for our annual income, a
heavy item, amounting last year to over $60, all of which might be
saved to the Company if subscribers would promptly pay up arrears
due.
But little additional stock has been taken during the year, while
a considerable amount of what was previously subscribed remains
but partially paid up. It will be for the new Board of Director-s to
say what shall be done to secure payment of the amounts due. The
Secretary would also call the attention of the Company to the claim
of Messrs. Barber Bros, against the former proprietors, for paper,
amounting to and which those gentlemen are willing to take in
stock in the Company, and he would recommend the Company to
order the issue of stock to them to the amount of their claim.
The removal of the editor to Ottawa, in January last, rendered
it necessary to call the Board together, to arrange for the carrying
on of the Magazine until the close of the then current volume. Mr.
Wood placed his resignation in the hands of the Board so as to leave
them entirely free to make what arrangement they considered best
178 CONGREGATIONAL PFBLISHING COMPANY.
in the premises. The Board, however, unanimously requested him
to continue to edit the Magazine till the annual meeting, and he
consented to do so. In consideration, also ot the oxfra expense that
would be incurred in getting some one to mail it, and of the fact
that the salary promised him on coming to Toronto had not been all
paid to him, the Board voted him, (entirely unsolicited on his part),
an addition of $50 to his salary for the present year.
The Board was instructed at last Annual Meeting to prepare a
Code of By-Law for the management of the affairs of the Company,
and these they now beg to submit for 3^our approval. They are few
and simple, but they think quite sufficient for our present wants.
All which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN WOOD.
Ottawa, May SIst, 18*78. Secretary -Treasurer.
Mr. Wood also presented the Financial Statement hereto ap-
pended.
On motion of Dr. Wilkes, seconded by Eev. Prof Fenwick, the
Keport and Financial Statement were received and adopted, and
ordered to be printed.
The Secretary also reported a draft of By-Laws for adoption by
the Company, which, after slight amendments, were adopted as
follows : —
BY-LAWS.
I. The Annual Meeting of the Company shall be held in connection with
the Annual Meeting of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, the
day 'and hour to be fixed by ihe President and (Secretary.
II. The number of Directors shall be seven, of whom four shall be a
quorum.
III. The qualification for a Director shall be the holding of two paid-up
shares in the stock of the Company.
IV. The OfKcers of the Company shall be a President, Vice-President,
Secretary- Treasurei*, and Editor, to be annually chosen at the first meeting of
the Board.
V. The President, Secretary, and Vice-President of the Company shall
constitute an Executive Committee for the management of all matters arising
between meetings of the Board of Directors.
A ballot was then taken for a new Board of Directors with the
result as indicated on the title page of this Eeport. The Company
then adjourned to the call of the Secretary.
W. MANCHBE,
Minute Secrdary
UNANOIAL STATEMENT.
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LEITERS PATENT.
LETl'ERS PATENT
IXCORPOBATING
f Ijr QloiigrrDatioiial luliiisljin^ €ompng.
— »-^* —
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VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, &c., dc.
To ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHAM, COMK GREETING.
§ Whereas, under and by an Act of the Legislature of Our Province of
"^ Ontario, passed in the Session thereof held in the thirty-seventh year of Our
|-.~ Reign, and intituled, "An Act respecting the Incorporation of Joint Stock
0^ ^, Companies Ijy letters Patent," the Lieutenant-Governor of Our said Province
^g in Council may by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Our said Province,
sCB grant a Charter of Incorporation to any number of persons, not less than five,
S^^ who sliall petition therefor, and may constitute such persons and others, who
•^ s may become shareholders in such Company, a body corporate and politic, for
►-1 cT^ any purposes or objects to which the Legislative authority of the said Legis-
!?; ^^ lature extends, except the construction and working of Railways and the
o ^ '^ business of Insurance.
-^^5 -^^^ whereas, by Petition addressed to Our Lieutenant-Governor of
Sq ^ Ontario in Council, George Hague, of the City of Toronto, Banker ; James
•^fo'S Smith, of the City of Toronto, Architect; David Higgins, of the City of
• . Toronto, Accountant ; Hubert George Grist, of the City of Toronto, Merchant;
'^'~=' the Reverend Samuel N. Jackson, of the City of Toronto, Minister of the
^ .^^ Gospel ; and the Reverend John Wood, of the City of Toronto, Minister of the
'^^'^ Gospel, have prayed that a Charter of Incorporation ma}' be granted to them
ci c £) ^"*^ ^'^ such other persons as are or may become shareholders in a Company
'oo'^S formed for the purpose of pubhshing the magazine known as " The Canadian
^w^ Independent," and such other books or periodicals as maj^ be from time to
time determined upon and the establishment of a Book Room for the sale and
' — *; — » dissemination of religious literature.
* And whereas, in accordance with the provisions of the above in pan
1-4 recited Act, notice has been published in the Ontario Gazette for at least one
'-' ' -' month previous to the presentation of the petition hereinbefore mentioned,
in which notice it is stated that George Hague, of the City of Toronto, in the
County of York, Banker ; James Smith, of the said City of Toronio, Architect ;
David Higgins, of the said City of Toronto, Accountant; Hubert George Grist,
of the said City of Toronto, Merchant ; William Erastus Welding, of the Town
of Brantford, in the County of Brant, Manufacturer ; the Reverend Samuel N.
Jackson, of the Citj^ of Toronto, Minister of the Gospel ; the Reverend John
Wood, of the City of Toronto, Minister of the Gospel, and the Reverend Henry
Sanders, of the City of Hamilton, Minister of the Gospel, intended to apply
for such Charter; that the proposed corporate name of the Company is "The
Congregational Publishing Company; that the object for which incorpora-
tion is sought is for the purpose of publishing the Magazine known as The
Canadian Independent and such other books or periodicals as may be from '
time to time determined upon, and the establisment of a Book Room for the
sale and dissemination of religious literature ; that the operations of the Com-
pany are to be carriec^ on in the City of Torooto, in the Province of Ontario;
LETTERS PATENT. 181
that the chief place of business of the Company is to be at the said City of
of Toronto; that the amount of the Capital Stock of the Company is Five
Thousand dollars ; that the number of shares is one thousand, and the amount
of each share is five dollars ; that the name in full and address and calling of
each of the applicants is as follows : — George Hague, Toronto, Banker ; James
Smith, Toronto, Architect; David Higgins, Toronto, Accountant; Hubert
George Grist, Toronto, Merchant; Samuel N. Jackson, Toronto, Minister of
the Gospel ; John Wood, Toronto, Minister of tlie Gospel ; that George Hague,
James Smith, David Higgins, Hubert George Grist, Samuel N. Jackson, and
John Wood are to be the first Directors of the Company.
And whereas, the said petition, besides stating the facts set forth in the
said notice, further states that the amount of the said stock tal en by each of
the said applicants is as follows: by the said George Hague, one hundred
dollars, upon which the sum of one dollar has been paid in ; by the said James
Smith, twenty-five dollars, upon which the sum of one dollar has been paid
in ; by the said David Higgins, five dollars, upon which the sum of one dollar
has been paid in ; Hubert George Grist, fifty dollars, upon which the sum of
one dollar has been paid in ; by the said Samuel N. Jackson, twenty-five
dollars, upon which the sum of one dollar has been paid in ; by the said John
Wood, twenty- five dollars, upon which the sum of one dollar has been paid in^
The amounts so paid in have been paid in cash.
And whereas, it has been proved to the satisfaction of Our Lieutenant-
Governor in Council, that the said applicants have complied with all the
requirements of the said Act, as to matters preliminary to the issue of Letters
Patent.
Now KNOW YE, that by and with the advice of Our Executive Council of
Our Province of Ontario, and under the authority of the hereinbefore in part
recited Statute, and of any other power or authority whatsoever in Us vested
in this behalf, We do by these Our Letters Patent constitute the said Goorge
Hague, James Smith, David Higgins, Hubert George Grist, Samuel N. Jack-
son, John Wood, and all and every such other person or persons as now is, or
are, or shall at any time hereafter become shareholders in the said Company,
under the provisions of the said Act, and the by-laws, made under the autho-
rity thereof, and their successors, a body corporate and politic, with perpetual
succession, and a common seal, by the name of " The Congregatioial Publish-
ing Company," and capable forthwith of exercising all the funclions of an
incorporated Company for the purposes aforesaid, as if incorporated by a
special Act of the Legislature of Ontario, and by their corporate name, of
suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in all courts, whether of
law or equity, and with the powers in the said Act more particularly set forth.
And we direct that the capital stock of the said Company be five thousand
dollars, and be divided into one thousand shares of five dollars each, and that
the said George Hague, James Smith, David Higgins, Hubert George Grist,
Samuel N. Jackson and John Wood be the first Directors of the said Company.
And the said Company hereby incorporated shall be subject to ihe general
provisions of law set forth in the said recited Act, and amongst others the
following, that is to say : —
L The affairs of every such Company shall be managed by a Board, of
not less than three, nor more than nme Directors.
2. The persons named as such, in the Letters Patent, shall be the
Directors of the Company, until replaced by others duly appointed in their
stead.
3. No person shall be elected or appointed as a Director thereafter, unless
he is a shareholder owning stoclc absolutely in his own right, and not in
arrear in respect of any call thereon.
4. The afte^' Directors of the Company shall be elected by the share-
holders in general meeting of the Company assembled at some place within
this Province, at such tiiAies, in such wise, and for such term, not exceeding
182 LETTERS PATENT.
two years, as the letters patent or (in default thereof) the by-laws of the Com-
pany may prescribe.
5. In default oniyof other express provisions in such behalf, by the letters
patent or by-laws of the Company ;
(a) Such election shall take place yfearly, all the members of the board
retiring, and (if otherwise qualified) being ehgible for re-election ;
(6) Notice of the time and place for holding general meetings of the Com-
pany shall be given at least ten days previously thereto, in some newspaper
published at or as near as may be to the office or chief place of business of the
Company ;
(c) At all general meetings of the Compan^^, every shareholder shall be
■entitled to as many votes as he owns shares in the Company, and may vote
by proxy ;
(d) Elections of Directors shall be by ballot;
(e) Vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors may, unless the by-laws
otherwise direct, be filled for the unexpired remainder of the term, by the
Board from among the qualified shareholders of the Company;
(f) The Directors shall, from time to time, elect from among themselves,
a President of the Company ; and shall also name, and may remove at
pleasure, all other officers thereof;
6. If at any time an election of Directors be not made, or do not take effect
at the proper time, the Company shall not be held to be thereby dissolved;
but such election may take place at any general meeting of the Company
duly called for that purpose; and the retiring Directors shall continue in
•office until their successors are elected.
7. The Directors of the Company shall have full power in all things to
administer the affairs of the Company; and may make, or cause to be made,
for the Company, any description of contract which the Company may by
law enter into ; and may, from time to time, make by-laws not contrary to
law, nor to the Letters Patent of the Company, nor to this Act, to regulate the
allotment of stock; the making of calls thereon; the payment thereof; the
issue and registration of certificates of stock ; the forfeiture of stock for non-
payment; the disposal of forfeited stock and of the proceeds thereof; the
transfer of stock ; the declaration and payment of dividends; the number of
the Directors, their terra of service, the amount of their stock qualification ;
the appointment, functions, duties and removal of all agents, officers and
servants of the Company; their remuneration ; the time at which, and place
where the annual meetings of the Company shall be held ; the calling of
meetings, regular and special, of the Board of Directors, and of the Company;
the quorum ; the requirements as to proxies ; and the procedure in all things
at such meetings ; the imposition and recovery of all penalties and forfeitures
admitting of regulation by by-law; and the conduct in all other particulars
of the affairs of the Company ; and may, from time to time, repeal, amend or
re-enact the same ; but every such by-law, and every repeal, amendment or
re-enactment thereof, unless in the meantime confirmed at a general meeting
of the Company, duly called for that purpose, shall only have force until the
next annual meeting of the Company ; and in default of confirmation thereat,
shall, at and from that time only, cease to have force; and in that case no
new by-law to the same or like effect shall have any force, until confirmed at
a general meeting of the Company ; Provided always that one-fourth part in-
value of the shareholders of the Company shall at all times have the right to
call a special meeting thereof, for the transaction of any business specified in
such written requisition and notice as they may issue to that effect: Provided
also, that no by-law for the allotment or sale of stock at any greater discount
or at any less premium than what has been previously authorized at a general
meeting, or for the payment of the president or any director, shall be valid or
acted upon until the same has been confirmed at a general meeting.
8. In case a by-law, authorizing the same, is sanctioned by a vote of not
less than two-thirds in value, of the said shareholders, then present in person
LETTERS PATENT. 183
or by proxy, at a general meeting duly called for considering the by-law, the
Directors may borrow money upon the credit of the Company, and issue the
bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company, and may sell the said
bonds, debentures or other securities at such prices as may be deemed
•expedient or be necessary; but no such debentures shall be for a less sum
than one hundred dollars.
(a) The Directors may, under the like sanction, hypothecate, mortgage,
or pledge the real or personal property of the Company, to secure any sum or
sums borrowed for the purposes thereof.
9. The Company shall cause a book or books to be kept by the Secretary,
or by some other officer especially charged with that duty, wherein shall be
Jiept recorded ;
(a) A copy of the Letters Patent incorporating the Company, and of any
supplementary Letters Patent for increasing or decreasing the capital stock
thereof, and of all by-laws thereof;
(6) The names, alphabetically arranged, of all persons who are or have
been shareholders ;
(c) The address and calling of every such person while such shareholders ;
(rf) The number of shares of stock held by each shareholder ;
Ce) The amounts paid in, and remaining unpaid, respectively, on the
stock of each shareholder ;
{f) All transfers of stock, in their order as presented to the Company for
entry, with the date and other particulars of each transfer, and the date of the
■entry thereof; and —
{g) The names, addresses and calling of all persons who are or have been
Directors of the Company ; with the several dates at which each ever became
or ceased to be such Director.
10. The Directors may reiuse to allow the entry, into any such book, of
any transfer of stock whereon any call has been made which has not been
paid in.
IL No transfer of stock, unless made by sale under execution, shall be
valid for any purpose whatever, save only as exhibiting the rights of the
parties thereto towards each other, and as rendering the transferee liable ad
interim jointly and severally with the transferor, to the Company and their
creditors, until the entry thereof has been duly made in such book or books.
12. Such books shall, during reasonable business hours of every day,
•except Sundays and holidays, be kept open for the inspection of shareholders
and creditors of the Company, and their personal representatives at the office or
chief place of business of the Company ; and every such shareholder, creditor
or representative, may make extracts therefrom.
13. Every contract, agreement, engagement or bargain made, and every
bill of exchange drawn, accepted or endorsed, and every promissory note
and cheque made, drawn or endorsed on behalf of the Company by any
agent, officer or servant of the Company, in general accordance with his
powers as such under the by-laws of the Company, shall be binding upon the
Company ; and in no case shall it be necessary to have the seal of the Com-
pany affixed to any such contract, agreement, engagement, bargain, bill of
exchange, promissory note or cheque, or to prove that the same was made,
drawn, accepted or endorsed, as the case aiay be, in pursuance of any by-law,
or special vote or order; nor shall the party so acting as agent, officer or
servant of the Company, be thereby subjected individually to any liability
whatsoever to any third party therefor; Provided always that nothing in this
Act shall be construed to authorise the Company to issue any note payable to
the bearer thereof, or any promissory note intended to be circulated as money,
or as the note of a Bank, or to engage in the business of banking or insurance.
14. No Company shall use any of its funds in the purchase of stock in
any other Corporation unless expressly authorized by the by-laws confirmed
at a general meeting.
184: " LETTEKS PATENT.
15. Each shareholder, until the whole amount of his stock has been paid
up, shall be individually liable to the creditors of the Company, to an amount
equal to that not paid up thereon, but shall not be liable to an action therefor
by any creditors, before an execution against the Company has been returned
unsatisfied in whole or in part; and the amount due on such execution, shall,
subject to the provisions of the next section, be the amount recoverable with
costs, against such shareholders: Provided that any shareholders may plead
by way of defence, in whole or in part, any set off which he could set up
against the Company, except a claim for unpaid dividends, or a salary, or
allowance as a president or director.
16. The Shareholders of the Company shall not be held responsible for
any act, default, or liability whatsoever, of the Company, or for any engage-
ment, claim, payment, loss, injury, transaction, matter or thing whatsoever,
relating to or connected with the Company, beyond the unpaid amount of
their respective shares in the capital stock thereof.
17. The Directors of the Company shall not declare or pay any dividend
when the Company is insolvent, or any dividend the payment of which renders
the Company insolvent or diminishes the capital stock thereof.
18. No loan shall be made by the Company to any shareholder; and if
such be made, all directors and other officers of the Company making the
same, or in anywise assenting thereto, shall be jointly and severally liable to
the Company for the amount of such loan, and also to third parties, to the
extent of such loan, with legal interest, for all debts of the Company contracted
from the time of the making of such loan to that of the repayment thereof.
But this section shall not apply to a Building Societj'-, or to a Company incor-
porated for the loan of money, in any manner to which the jurisdiction of
this Legislature, or the meaning of this Act applies.
19. The Directors of the Company shall be jointly and severally liable to
the labourers, servants and apprentices thereof, for all debts not exceeding one
year's wages, due for services performed for the Company whilst they are,
such directors respectively; but no director shall be liable tlierefor, unless the
Company has been sued therefor within one year from the time when he
ceased to be such director, nor yet before an execution against the Company
has been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part; and the amount^ due on
such execution shall be the amount recoverable with the costs against the
directors.
20. The Charter of the Company shall be forfeited by non-user during
three consecutive years at anyone time, or if the Company do not go into
actual operation within three years after it is granted ; and no declaration of
such forfeiture by any Act of the Legislature shall be deemed an infringement
of such Charter.
21. The Company shall be subject to such further and other provisions
as the Legislature of Ontario may hereafter deem expedient in ordor to secure
the due management of its affairs and the protection of its shareholders and
creditors.
In Testimony whereof. We have caused these Our Letters to be made
Patent, and the Great Seal of Our said Province of Ontario to be herirunto
afflxed :
Witness, The Honourable Donald Alexander Macdonald, Lieutenant-
Governor of Our Province of Ontario.
At Our Government House, in Our City of Toronto, in Our said Province
this ninth day of February, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven, and in the fortieth year of Our Reign.
By Command,
THOS. M. SCOBLE,
Acting Assistant Secretary.
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